Google: 'No Concrete Plan' For Server Farm In Austria
Elaborating on its announcement Thursday that it has acquired 75 hectares of real estate in Kronstorf village, near Linz city, a Google spokesman said the idea of a server farm was still just that - an idea.
"We have bought a plot of land, but there is no concrete plan to build a center," spokesman Kay Oberbeck said in a statement. "We are still in the process of studying the possibilities and how they can be exploited."
Google said it picked Kronstorf over sites in a dozen European countries because it offered "very good conditions for building a center".
Server farms house an array of powerful computers that handle requests for data from Internet users. They require a great deal of electricity to function, plus a constant supply of water to keep the computers cool.
Local officials said Google's investment would be worth tens of millions of euros.
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November 22, 2008 14:28 ET (19:28 GMT)
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