TAIPEI,
Taiwan -- Google Inc. is building a data center in Taiwan – its third in Asia
after Hong Kong and Singapore – to meet the rapidly growing online demand
across the region, the company said Tuesday.
The three
data centers – with investment totaling $700 million – will provide users with
faster, more reliable access to various Google products, the Internet search
giant said as its Taiwan facility broke ground in the western county of
Changhua.
Daniel
Alegre, Google's Asian-Pacific president, said at a ceremony that the
infrastructure investment was meant to help the company meet the great
potential of Internet use in Asia.
"More
new Internet users are coming online everyday here in Asia than anywhere else
in the world," he said. "They are looking for information and
entertainment, new business opportunities and better ways to connect with
friends and family."
Google's
three Asian data centers will join its six in the United States and two in
Europe.
Data
centers are secure facilities packed with thousands of computers that store and
serve vast amounts of information.
Google
touts the new data centers as environmentally friendly, partly through the use
of a nighttime cooling and thermal energy storage system that cools large
quantities of water at night.
"During
the day, when Taiwan heats up – especially in the summers – and power is more
expensive to produce, we'll circulate that cold water throughout the facility
to keep it cool," it said in a statement.
The three
new centers will be up and running in 2013, the company said.
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