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Google added another 407 MW of renewable Wind Energy. That’s a lot. Google now has 1 GigaWatt of Wind Power.
This is our seventh and largest renewable energy commitment to date, bringing the total amount of renewable energy we’ve contracted for to over one gigawatt (1,000 megawatts).
I wonder if Google will be able to make the next addition 210 MW to achieve the 1.21 gigawatts for “Back to the Future"
Google released its Q1 numbers yesterday, and I waited until GigaOm’s Derrick Harris through up the nice graphic of the quarterly spend.
Derrick’s post is here. One nice part I liked is he inserted the CFO’s comments about the infrastructure spend.
Here’s what Google Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette had to say on Wednesday’s earnings call, according to a transcriptpublished by research firm Morningstar:
As it relates to CapEx, listen, you’re right, that we – and I’ve mentioned this in the last couple of quarters, where we have – and just a reminder to everybody, right, if you think of the CapEx categories, right, data centers first and data center construction, then production equipment, then all other facilities is kind of like the hierarchy of needs. In the case of data center construction, we have found that the option value of having more capacity on standby and available to us to grow versus not having it is actually a real strategic issue for the Company. In that sense, if for whatever reason, we had a spike in demand that was really pronounced and sustained for a couple of quarters and we did not have the capacity, it would be a real issue strategically for us relative to the quite low cost of having the infrastructure in place. So that’s why we’re really pushing ahead of the curve, and so it’s with this view of long-term. So, from that perspective, you’re also right that, that’s the mindset we’re applying. And we’ve always said that CapEx was lumpy, so you have a good manifestation of it right now right here.
Google is one the few Cloud companies who can keep up with their demand by building data centers. Most need to dip into Wholesale providers. Think about if the big guys can’t anticipate their loads and build everything why should the rest of you? Google is the exception with a $9bil annual spend. ;-)
There can be a lot of misleading information on how much capacity is being added in a company data centers. One way to look at the growth is job openings. Went up to Google’s career site and there are 60 job openings around the world - Chile, Singapore, Brazil, Ireland, Taiwan, Finland, USA (Reston, Council Bluffs, Mountain View (HQ), Mayes County, Berkeley County, Lenoir, The Dalles)
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I was in SF this week for three days of conference and meetings. I didn’t make it to the Google Cloud Event. I did go to the AWS Summit. My friends who went to the Google Cloud event said great things about the event and how good the party was. The same friends and I agreed the AWS Summit Keynote was so boring. There were hundreds of people who walked out of the keynote. Why? The AWS event spent time explaining the AWS stack, going over every component.
There were friends online were making fun of the presentation being so boring. This presentation could have been made at a Gartner conference, and even included Gartner quotes
This messaging made sense given the big push was for Amazon Workspaces.
If you want to see how boring the AWS Summit Keynote was you can watch the video along with the other 763 views.
Or you can watch the Google Cloud video with the other 6,266 views.
I am taking the time to watch Urs. Good stuff if you want to develop some Cloud apps. If I watched the AWS I would probably fall asleep listening to how AWS is right for the Enterprise.
The data center growth of Google is well documented and tracked.
From looking at the numbers Google is doubling its infrastructure spending over the past year.
Obvious assumption then is a doubling of capacity. I made this incorrect assumption.
I am off to SF tomorrow, and I’ll be looking for data to confirm my new assumption of how much new capacity Google is adding.
