{"id":35273,"date":"2013-04-10T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T08:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=35273"},"modified":"2013-04-10T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T08:41:44","slug":"google-injects-millions-into-eu-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/35273\/google-injects-millions-into-eu-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Google injects millions into EU data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet search giant Google says it is investing 300 million euros ($390 million) to expand its continental European data center.<\/p>\n<p>Google Inc. said Wednesday it will upgrade the facility in Belgium to meet growing demand for its online services.<\/p>\n<p>The information underpinning Google&#8217;s services &#8211; Internet search requests, Gmail or YouTube &#8211; is processed in industrial-scale data centers such as the Belgian plant in St. Ghislain southwest of Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Google says the center currently has some 120 employees and is one of the most energy-efficient facilities of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>The company, based in Mountain View, California operates other data centers catering for the European market in Ireland and Finland.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Apple, Google avoid employee poaching lawsuit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/35057\/apple-google-avoid-employee-poaching-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple, Google avoid employee poaching lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google Glass faces competition\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/34863\/google-glass-faces-competition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Glass faces competition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Regulators take action over Google privacy policy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/34750\/regulators-take-action-over-google-privacy-policy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Regulators take action over Google privacy policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google must pay for news: media companies\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/34491\/google-must-pay-for-news-media-companies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google must pay for news: media companies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google says it is investing $390 million to expand its continental European data center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,2858,53],"class_list":["post-35273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-data-center","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35278,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273\/revisions\/35278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}