Last Thursday, August 29, Google announced its intention to open its second data center in Latin America.
It is currently known that the mentioned technology giant’s new functional facility will be located in Canelones, Uruguay. The company intends to spend more than $850 million on the construction of this data center.
In 2015, Google opened its first data center in Latin America in Quilicura, which is located near Santiago, the capital of Chile. Initially, the technology giant invested $150 million in the implementation of this project. In 2018, the company spent another $140 million to expand its first data center in Latin America.
The message, which was published on the Google blog, contains a statement that the firm hopes that the new functional facility in Uruguay will make a significant contribution to the professional and technological development of this country and throughout Latin America.
Also on Thursday, the media reported that the technology giant is considering the possibility of building a hyperscale data center in Vietnam. Also, according to information released by journalists, this functional facility will be launched in 2027. The Vietnamese data center is expected to be located close to Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s southern economic hub. It is worth noting that this is preliminary information.
It is also worth mentioning that in April, Google announced an investment of $ billion in a project to build a data center in Indiana. Also at that time, the technology giant stated its intention to expand the already existing similar functional facility in Virginia. In May, the company announced a $2 billion investment to develop its first data center in Malaysia.
It is worth noting that in a certain sense, the growing demand for data centers is a natural circumstance of the era of digitalization, which determines the content of the current historical moment. The virtual space is expanding. Currently, there are enough arguments in favor of the claims that at the present stage of the material and technological development of human civilization, a new dimension of reality has been formed. which is digital. In a certain sense, the world is gradually getting a virtual form, which in no way cancels the fact of the existence of what can be called pristine nature. The digital dimension of reality includes more and more processes, including workflows and other types of activity.
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