Google will Build Data Center in Asia

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To strengthen its position in Asia as more intense competition with several other search engines, Google will build data centers in three countries in Asia, namely Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

As reported antaranews.com site as quoted by the AFP, the company Google is based in Mountain View, California will build data centers in an area of ​​22.6 hectares in the three countries.

The search engine giant Google, as long as it only has data centers in the United States and Europe. However, Google began to strengthen its position in Asia due to the growth of Internet users in the continent increased enormously.

"The number of users and the amount of Internet use in Asia is growing faster than anywhere else in the world," said Taj Meadows, manager of Google's communications policy Asia-Pacific region.

To build data centers in Asia, Google set aside more than 200 million U.S. dollars.

The data center is shaped house with a computer equipped with a communication system security and backup power supplies high.

''The aim is to improve the company's services to customers in the region," said Taj Meadows.

Competitive of search engine business in Asia increasingly stringent, one of the Chinese search engine, Baidu is growing with the population of Internet users in the country that became 485 million and is the largest in the world.

A study released by the Economist Intelligence Unit said the Asian economies to close the gap on the West in terms of their IT competitiveness, because they strengthen copyright protection and regulatory reforms.

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