The latest capital expenditure number marks the company’s heaviest investment in its data center operations since the second quarter of 2008, when Google was wrapping up a flurry of construction projects in North Carolina, South Carolina and Iowa.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Google Boosts Data Center Spending
Google reported capital expenditures of $476 million in the second quarter of 2010, more than doubling its spending from the previous quarter.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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