[翻译]Google To Build A New Data Center in Taiwan

• 2012-04-04
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Google Inc. is building a data center in Taiwan – its third in Asia after Hong Kong and Singapore – to meet the rapidly growing online demand across the region, the company said Tuesday.

The three data centers – with investment totaling $700 million – will provide users with faster, more reliable access to various Google products, the Internet search giant said as its Taiwan facility broke ground in the western county of Changhua.

Daniel Alegre, Google’s Asian-Pacific president, said at a ceremony that the infrastructure investment was meant to help the company meet the great potential of Internet use in Asia.

“More new Internet users are coming online everyday here in Asia than anywhere else in the world,” he said. “They are looking for information and entertainment, new business opportunities and better ways to connect with friends and family.”

Google’s three Asian data centers will join its six in the United States and two in Europe.

Data centers are secure facilities packed with thousands of computers that store and serve vast amounts of information.

Google touts the new data centers as environmentally friendly, partly through the use of a nighttime cooling and thermal energy storage system that cools large quantities of water at night.

“During the day, when Taiwan heats up – especially in the summers – and power is more expensive to produce, we’ll circulate that cold water throughout the facility to keep it cool,” it said in a statement.

The three new centers will be up and running in 2013, the company said.

谷歌周二表示将在台湾建设一个新的数据中心。这是在香港和新加坡之后，设在亚洲的第三个数据中心，用来满足该地区迅速增长的业务需求。这三个数据中心投资总额共达7亿美元，将向该地区用户提供更快，更可靠的Google服务。这个数据中心将设在彰化县。
        谷歌亚太总裁丹尼尔·阿莱格里表示，谷歌的这些基础设施投资，是为了帮助该公司在未来的时间里能够满足亚洲用户需求量的巨大增长。“亚洲的用户增长比其他地方更大，”他表示：“他们需要搜索信息、在线娱乐。需要在网络上完成商务活动，还要与家人朋友保持沟通。”
       谷歌的这三个亚洲数据中心将与美国的六个和欧洲的两个已有的数据中心一起工作。数据中心是挤满了数以千计服务器的集群，用来储存信息和提供在线服务。
       谷歌宣称新的数据中心将会非常环保，它在一份声明中表示：“我们将会采用一种热量储存和夜间冷却系统。在晚上，可以自然冷却大量的水。当白天温度升高时（尤其是在夏天），原本所消耗的的能源成本会更高，但我们可以使用这些已冷却的水来给数据中心降温。”
       谷歌表示，这三个新的数据中心将在2013年建成和运行。