Google opens it Taiwan and Singapore Data Centers, Pretty Pictures

Data Centers can be boring, but pretty pictures can make it more interesting.  Google announced its new Taiwan and Singapore data center, and they have nice pictures to make it more interesting.  Here is picture of pipes in Google’s new Taiwan data center.

Singapore has a Robot in its office space.

Remember all those media posts on the news that Google was ooohhh building a multi story data center in The Dalles.  Well, the Singapore data center is multistory now, and I don’t recall anyone thinking it was newsworthy.

Our first multi-story data center

Windfarms are a standard practice for Google’s renewable energy strategy and here is a nice pic of Taiwan.

Google Double downs in Taiwan

Google just announced it is expanding in Taiwan.

Google doubles Taiwan data centre investment to $600 million

CHANGHUA, Taiwan Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:03am EST

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Dec 11 (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Wednesday it will double its planned investment to $600 million for its data centre in Taiwan to cater to the world's fastest growing technology consumer markets.

"While we've been busy building, the growth in Asia's Internet has been amazing. The number of Internet users in India doubled, from 100 million to 200 million. It took six years to achieve that milestone in the U.S.," Google's vice president of data centres, Joe Kava said in a statement.

The funny thing is I was looking at the Google data center Taiwan website and it said...

In December 2013, we announced the opening of our facility that represents a total long-term investment of USD 600 million.

When.  Oh 24 minutes ago.

A good strategy to go for three data centers in a region, Google folds HK, keeps Singapore and Taiwan

Google announced data centers in HK, Singapore and Taiwan 2 years ago.  Three is a good number when you want to create a high availability service, because sometimes the third has problems.  And in Google’s case they confirmed they will not open up Hong Kong reported in WSJ.

Google Scraps Plan to Build Hong Kong Data Center

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Internet giant Google Inc.GOOG +0.60% has scrapped a plan to build its own data center in Hong Kong and will instead expand its facilities in Taiwan and Singapore.

This undated file photo made available by Google shows the campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

 

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“While we see tremendous opportunity and potential in Hong Kong…we will not be moving ahead with this project,” Taj Meadows, Asia-Pacific policy communications manager, told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday

We’ll see if Google chooses another location in Asia Pacific.

Although when you look at a map it looks like Middle East would be a place sometime in the future.

Google investing in robotics for mfg and logistics, and maybe data centers?

GigaOm has a post on Google’s Android Chief Rubin working on robotics.

Google gets into the robot game, with former Android chief Rubin leading the effort

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The company has been quietly buying firms to help it build robots that could be used in manufacturing, logistics and quite possibly other sectors, too.

What seems quite possible is Rubin’s efforts with Android have woken him up the opportunity to be the OS for robotics.

I have written on my own and researched the potential for robotics in the data center. With Google’s ability to design its own data centers, racks, servers, and network gear it is quite possible there are robotics in a future scenario.

the post references the NYTimes with manufacturing and logistics.

In an interview with theNew York Times, Andy Rubin suggested Google’s latest “moonshot” involves robots for the manufacturing and logistics markets.

and with amazon’s drone now it is a hot topic to discuss automated delivery.

Who would have thought that the Tablet Wars are between Apple, Google, and Amazon

I have an iPad, Samsung Tablet, and a 1st generation Kindle Fire.   In the past month Apple, Google and Amazon have announced their new Tablets and CNET has a post on display quality.

iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test

The iPad Air has an "excellent" display -- but not quite as excellent as the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, DisplayMate says.

On Thursday I am getting a Kindle Fire HDX 8.9.  During the day I find myself spending time in amazon’s, apple’s, and google’s mobile OS.  The true test on the Kindle HDX is what my kids think.  They are always making fun of the number of things I use during the day.  One of these days they may understand what I am doing what all the devices creating a mobile service solution. When I try to tell the story of what I am building I feel like it is bedtime situation.  My family usually gets sleepy, nods their head, “uh huh”, “yea”, and they are ready to go to sleep. I’ve learned this lesson and don’t tell the mobile stories unless I have someone who has the problem set we are trying to solve.  That’s when they are awake. 

What is interesting is Amazon, Apple, and Google are each trying to solve a different mobile problem which is defined by their business model.