{"id":39660,"date":"2019-09-20T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=b9915779cc20e22d977048470f451cdc"},"modified":"2019-09-20T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:53:35","slug":"google-invests-3-billion-in-european-data-centre-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-invests-3-billion-in-european-data-centre-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google invests $3 billion in European data centre expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Connor Jones<\/a><\/span>
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Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced today that the company will be investing a further three billion euros (\u00a32,642,906,834) into European data centres over the next two years.<\/p>\n

This additional investment brings Google’s total investment in European digital infrastructure to 15 billion euros (\u00a313,212,675,000) since 2007 – an endeavour which has supported 13,000 jobs, according to a Copenhagen Economics study.<\/p>\n

In addition, a further 600 million euros (\u00a3528,393,000) will be pumped into the expansion of its\u00a0data centre<\/a>\u00a0operations in Hamina, Finland, which it originally bought in 2009 and transformed it from an old paper mill to a high-tech facility which supports 4,300 jobs.<\/p>\n

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\n“The Nordic countries are great examples of how the internet can help drive economic growth,” said Pichai. “Our Hamina data centre is a significant driver of economic growth and opportunity. It also serves as a model of sustainability and energy efficiency for all of our data centres.”<\/p>\n

The Hamina facility is situated near to the Russian border and uses seawater taken from the Gulf of Finland to reduce the amount of energy required to cool the hardware.<\/p>\n

Google announced yesterday that it has continued on its commitment to using\u00a0as much green energy as possible<\/a>\u00a0by completing the largest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history.<\/p>\n

“These deals will increase our worldwide portfolio of wind and solar agreements by more than 40 percent, to 5,500 MW–equivalent to the capacity of a million solar rooftops,” said Pichai. “Once all these projects come online, our carbon-free energy portfolio will produce more electricity than places like Washington D.C. or entire countries like Lithuania or Uruguay use each year.”<\/p>\n

Currently, Google’s other European data centres are located in the Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium, but last year it announced plans to build an entirely carbon-neutral data centre in Denmark, adding to its European data centre portfolio and bolstering its green energy drive.<\/p>\n

The tech giant plans to invest $700 million (\u00a3616,769,017) into the\u00a0new green site in Frederica, Denmark<\/a>\u00a0and use machine learning to ensure ever watt is used effectively.<\/p>\n

Europe is somewhat of a hotbed for data centres, particularly for Google’s in Scandinavia which can operate using better energy efficiency than other locations around the world. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connor Jones<\/p>\n

20 Sep, 2019 <\/p>\n

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced today that the company will be investing a further three billion euros (\u00a32,642,906,834) into European data centres over the next two years.
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