Tech Titans Building Boom

  • Authors:
  • R. H. Katz

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The serene countryside around the Columbia River in the northwestern United States has emerged as a major, and perhaps unexpected, battleground among Internet powerhouses. That's where Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo have built some of the world's largest and most advanced computer facilities: colossal warehouses packed with tens of thousands of servers that will propel the next generation of Internet applications. Call it the data center arms race.