Google Building Two New Data Centers in the Carolinas

Google’s new data center in Goose Creek, South Carolina

Google (www.google.com) announced on Wednesday it is currently building two new data centers in the Carolinas, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.

The company says the new data centers will meet its growing server needs. The company’s need for servers comes from a wide variety of workloads, several of them directly related to the hosting business – the massive storage requirements of Gmail, for instance, and the cloud-based application platform App Engine.

Google is nearing the completion of a second data center at its campus in Goose Creek, South Carolina. The company is also building a comparable data center in Lenoir, North Carolina.

Google originally planned to include two data centers at each of the Goose Creek and Lenoir sites.

In 2008, Google constructed two data centers at each site, installing servers and networking equipment in one facility while the second facility served as an empty “shell” to be used in the future.

Starting early next year, Google says it will install servers and networking equipment in the second data centers at both its Lenoir and Goose Creek sites. They are scheduled to go online by the end of 2011.

Additionally, the company is currently expanding three of its major US-based data center, including in Pryor, Oklahoma.

The facility was originally set to be completed in 2009 but was postponed in late 2008 due to the recession.

Construction on the Lenoir and Goose Creek facilities was also postponed for economic constraints.

Now that Google’s business is in full bloom once again, the company is in the need for additional capacity and has invested more than $750 million on data center costs in the third quarter.

This figure is almost equal to the amount Google spent for all of 2009’s data center needs.