Google opened the first data centers in Asia

Growing number of users of different services Google is the cause of at least a permanent increase in the number of data centers the company. In this case, data centers are opened in new areas to meet the needs of local users. So, on Wednesday opened the first data centers "Corporations good" in Asia.

Total opened two data centers in two regions, Taiwan and Singapore. In the past year, the company planned to begin construction in Hong Kong, but that is not grown together with the purchase of the land, and the project was closed.

Data centers have been built, as mentioned above, because of the rapid increase in the number of users in the region. "The number of Internet users in India has doubled, from 100 to 200 million people. In the US, the achievement of this indicator took six years "- said the company's vice president for management and construction of data centers Joe Kava.

"From July to September this year, about 600 million people in Asia have tried mobile search for the first time. And this, according to the number of people - two of Canada. And, most likely, this will not stop the rapid growth in the near future "- continued Joe Kava.

It is worth noting that the constructed data centers can be called innovative and nanotechnology, in terms of number of implementation of "green" technologies.

For instance, in Changhua County, Taiwan, was built data center that uses wind energy (wind farm near a special tuned). Investment in this data center will be US $ 600 million (originally planned 300).



In addition, this data center cooling system uses specific. At night, the reduced ambient temperature is used for cooling water collected then insulated storage.





In the morning the cold water used in the cooling system, and the accumulated water at night just enough to light (and hence warm) time. Thus, the data center from Taiwan uses far less energy than in a normal situation.



As for the data center of Singapore, this project - very unusual in terms of the traditional planning DTs. The fact that it was built in a high-rise building, which also has an apartment residents and elementary school. In the lobby of the data center has a giant robot, weighing 400 pounds. It has built a local craftsman from a conventional metal.

Via datacenterknowledge

Source: habrahabr.ru/company/kingservers/blog/205920/