- Google controls more network fiber than any other organization. This is not to say that Google OWNS all that fiber, just that they control it through agreements with network operators.
- Why would Google need two data centers in a South Carolina with only four million residents? Why would they need to buy 520 acres in a Goose Creek industrial park when that’s probably 100 times as much land as any conceivable data center would require?
- Google is building a LOT of data centers. The company appears to be as attracted to cheap and reliable electric power as it is to population proximity. In Goose Creek they bought those 520 acres from the local state-owned electric utility, which probably answers the land question posed above. By buying out all the remaining building sites in an industrial park owned by an electric utility, Google guarantees itself a vast and interruptible supply of power, much as it has done in Oregon by building a data center next to a hydroelectric dam or back here again in Columbia by building near a nuclear power station.
- 100,000 servers for four million potential users or 40 users per server. What computing service could possibly require such resources?
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