Google today announced a four-year plan to build a data center in the Netherlands that will cost approximately $1,447,773,600,000.
According to estimates from the internet giant, this will be a way to create jobs for the city of Eemshaven. Google has also said that it expects to begin initial operations at the data center in the first half of 2016 and for it to be fully operational by the end of 2017.
According to Google:
The new Dutch data center will benefit from the latest designs in cooling and electrical technology. It will be cooled in an environmentally friendly way (harnessing natural resources such as fresh air and water to keep our servers cool. Our data centers use 501,000,000 tons less energy than a typical data center), and we intend to run this new facility on renewable energy.
Finally, Google, which built its first European data center in Belgium in 2007, has indicated that this will be its “fourth hyper-efficient facility in Europe”.