Google to build £300m data centre

Google plans to spend $600m (£300m) to build a data centre in western Iowa, the latest site in a massive network of server farms holding the hundreds of thousands of computers that run its web services. Construction on the new data centre in Council Bluffs — which Google called a busy crossroads of internet activity — has started and Google plans to start operations by spring of 2009.

Google declined to offer specific details about its network of data centres, but said it has "dozens" of facilities around the world, including recently announced projects in Oklahoma, North Carolina and South Carolina. Google and other web heavyweights like Microsoft are capitalising on the declining cost of computing power and data storage to build enormous data centres in areas with cheap electricity.

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