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Google: The new heavy industry

by Mathew on February 16, 2008 · View Comments

Harper’s magazine has a great feature in its March issue under the “Annotation” banner: It’s a close-up look at the blueprints for Google’s new server farms in The Dalles, Oregon — the ones that the New York Times wrote about back in 2006. The plans describe three giant buildings of almost 70,000 square feet or [...]

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Those server farms are expensive

by Mathew on August 11, 2006 · View Comments

It’s only one sentence in a long quarterly report (the so-called 10-Q) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, but it says a lot about Google’s financial picture going forward (the full filing is here). The sentence says: “The annual rate of growth in 2006 of our spending on property and equipment will be [...]

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If you’re a computer nerd — or even just interested in the guts of what Google does and how it does it — there’s a great story in the New York Times today about the new server farms the search engine company is constructing on the shores of the Columbia River in The Dalles, Oregon. [...]

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