Amazon.com builds huge data center in rural Oregon
| November 11, 2008 |  View for printing |
Complex in the Columbia Basin follows Google's in The Dalles
A huge data center linked to Amazon.com is going up quietly at the end of a dirt road nearly a mile long in Eastern Oregon.
It is the second data center to locate along the river in Oregon's part of the energy-rich Columbia Basin. Server farms typically use lots of electricity and water.
Google Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., employs nearly 200 staff members and contract workers at its server complex in The Dalles.
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