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Old 06-24-2015, 02:02 PM
 
Location: Mobile,Al(the city by the bay)
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Google building $600 million data center in Alabama

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Google plans to build a $600 million data center in Stevenson,
according to Gov. Robert Bentley.


The center -- Google's seventh in the U.S. and 14th worldwide --
will bring 75-100 "high-paying" jobs to Jackson County in
northeast Alabama, Bentley said. Construction will begin in 2016.


"This a fantastic and exciting day for Jackson County," said Jackson County
Commission Chair Matthew Hodges.


This will be Google's 14th data center campus worldwide.


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"This is the start of a long-lasting, productive relationship with Google,"
Bentley said.


Bentley credited Tennessee Valley Authority Chairman and Huntsville attorney
Joe Ritch in those who helped secure the project. The TVA board of directors announced in November 2013 that the plant
would close.



"For more than 50 years, the Widows Creek
plant has generated electricity for the region. Now the site will be used to
bring Internet services and information to people around the world — powered by
100 percent renewable energy," Gary Demasi, director of Global Infrastructure at
Google, said in a press release. "We see a lot of potential in redeveloping
large industrial sites like former coal plants, and we're excited to bring a
data center to Alabama."




Google building $600 million data center in Alabama | AL.com
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Old 06-24-2015, 11:59 PM
 
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If you had told me that Google was interested in an old coal plant a week ago, along with its toxic remnants, I would have said you were nuts. I still don't get the reasoning behind this exact choice of location.
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Old 06-25-2015, 05:39 AM
 
Location: Mobile,Al(the city by the bay)
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If you had told me that Google was interested in an old coal plant a week ago, along with its toxic remnants, I would have said you were nuts. I still don't get the reasoning behind this exact choice of location.
Me either .
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Old 06-25-2015, 08:23 AM
 
Location: Birmingham
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If you had told me that Google was interested in an old coal plant a week ago, along with its toxic remnants, I would have said you were nuts. I still don't get the reasoning behind this exact choice of location.
What do a bunch of servers care? They probably got paid to take the land. 75-100 SQL coders commuting from Chattanooga will just have to suck it up and deal with it.
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Old 06-25-2015, 11:45 AM
 
Location: Madison, AL
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If you had told me that Google was interested in an old coal plant a week ago, along with its toxic remnants, I would have said you were nuts. I still don't get the reasoning behind this exact choice of location.
- Halfway between Chattanooga and HSV means they'll get to choose people from both of those cities
- Halfway between Chattanooga and HSV means they'll have two decent sized cities that they can hook up to for uplinks
- Since it is coming off of the electric grid soon, it has very up to date high capacity electric hookups, which are needed for the data center
- Not sure what they paid for it (if anything) but land in that area is cheap, and that land especially so since not much else could go there
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Old 06-25-2015, 03:48 PM
 
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The location was picked because it was dirt cheap. Being located between two cities that sorta kinda almost resemble tech cities helps as well.
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