Google's building three new data centers in Asia, and they're going to spend at least $200 million!
Specifically, they're building them in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
The article is really interesting:
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The data center expansion also reflects the growing popularity of cloud-based computing, in which users access word processing, spreadsheet and other programs over the Internet instead of keeping them on their own machines.
The expansion also reflects heavy demand in Asia for online entertainment. Thais, for example, most often search online for music and videos while South Koreans frequently use their phones to upload videos to YouTube, according to Google data, Meadows said.
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