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Google buys 109 hectares of land in rural Sweden
TheLocal.se ^
| 13 October 2017 11:14 CEST+02:00
| Emma Löfgren
Posted on 10/13/2017 8:55:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Google confirmed to The Local that the internet giant has acquired 109 hectares of land in Avesta municipality in the Dalarna region as part of its data center strategy.
It had long been rumored that Google was in the process of purchasing land in the area, and on Friday representatives said they had closed a deal for 109 hectares some 160 kilometers northwest of Stockholm.
The Local understands that certain plans for basic infrastructure on the site (such as roads and electricity) are already in the pipeline, but there are not yet any confirmed plans to use the land to build a data center. […]
The news comes less than a year after Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it will establish three new data centers in Västerås, Eskilstuna and Katrineholm in 2018. …
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Local News
KEYWORDS: amazon; avesta; datacenter; eskilstuna; google; katrineholm; sweden; vasteras
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posted on
10/13/2017 8:55:35 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I guess they want to have their female employees raped by muslims.
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posted on
10/13/2017 8:56:24 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Olog-hai
About 300 acres, if my quick calculations are correct.
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posted on
10/13/2017 9:04:47 PM PDT
by
be-baw
To: Olog-hai
What the heck is a hectare?
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posted on
10/13/2017 9:19:49 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: P-Marlowe
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posted on
10/13/2017 9:23:53 PM PDT
by
Signalman
To: P-Marlowe
What the heck is a hectare?you need to google it lol
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posted on
10/13/2017 9:23:54 PM PDT
by
Mister Baredog
(AP Headline: Global Warming found on Mars, it's Trumps fault)
To: P-Marlowe
Sorry for the literal reply, but it’s a hundredth of a square kilometer, or about 2.47 acres. Good old metric system.
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posted on
10/13/2017 9:41:09 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: be-baw
close enough, 269.3438
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posted on
10/13/2017 9:51:17 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: Chode
I rounded it up to the nearest hundred.
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posted on
10/13/2017 9:56:02 PM PDT
by
be-baw
To: be-baw
why i said close enough... 8^) i just pushed it through convert.exe
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posted on
10/13/2017 10:02:00 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: Olog-hai
Maybe Google wants all that space to work on one of their ‘Black Projects’; too secret for the San Francisco area, where people expect guided tours and free bags of bling.
Facebook has a secret workshop called Building 8, where they have been working on projects connected with augmented reality. Located in Menlo Park, or South San Francisco area.
To: P-Marlowe
What the heck is a hectare?It's a hare that's going to heck. As in a handbasket.
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posted on
10/13/2017 10:50:04 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
To: P-Marlowe
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posted on
10/13/2017 11:09:03 PM PDT
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
To: txnativegop
First Sweden then the World, ha,ha,ha,hah.....
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posted on
10/13/2017 11:17:10 PM PDT
by
arrogantsob
(Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
To: Secret Agent Man
Sweden is the most 'progressive' country in Europe. They're so progressive when ISIS terrorist come back from Syria they can go right back to school and work. No questions asked.
Nope.. not joking that is what they're doing.
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posted on
10/14/2017 12:51:12 AM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: lee martell
They are doing what Johnny Depp did in Transcendence.
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posted on
10/14/2017 5:24:36 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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