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Google plans to employ 50-60 people to run the data center. So far they have found four, so they have some head hunting to do. Google Maps says Hamina is a 2 h
by nirmal 16y ago
Google plans to employ 50-60 people to run the data center. So far they have found four, so they have some head hunting to do.
Google Maps says Hamina is a 2 hour drive from Helsinki, can any Finns comment on if this is an accurate time? Or is it one of those 6 months of the year the roads are dead sort of thing?
- avar 16y agoIf you look closer at Google Maps you'll see that the road from Helsinki to Hamina goes past several other cities, and it looks like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Hamina&sll=48.00493,7.82691&sspn=0.006216,0.01472&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hamina,+Finland&ll=60.494946,26.756945&spn=0.009152,0.045791&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=60.497166,26.764129&panoid=nvBg7cEpfFV9oqcmmshx0A&cbp=12,279.53,,0,20.08 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... It's hardly some dirt road in the middle of nowhere, so yes, 2 hours is probably accurate.
- sushi 16y agoYeah It's almost 2 hours 15 minutes drive from Helsinki but driving is the only option to reach Hamina. There is no rail system connecting Hamina (there was one, no longer operational). I have been closely following the news about this particular datacenter and it really is strange that Google hasn't found enough engineers for the job there. I have been seeing the ads for the jobs at Hamina datacentre since last one year or so.
- zeemonkee 16y agoI've only been to Hamina once (nice harbour BTW) but I don't recall if there was a university or technical college there. I'd have thought Helsinki/Espoo, Tampere or Oulu would have been better for communications and near to recruitment grounds.
- sushi 16y agoYou are right. Helsinki/Espoo, Tampere or Oulu would have been far better choices from the point of recruitment but this is a large piece of land and probably Google didn't want to let it go. Besides they must have thought the name Google is enough to get smart people where ever they want. btw this is what centre of Hamina looks like : http://torikamera.haminetti.net/user/toricam.html http://torikamera.haminetti.net/user/toricam.html
- nihilocrat 16y agoThere's a data center in Lenoir, NC which they spun as a way of training and employing laid-off furniture / textile mill workers. The fact that this is in a paper mill shut down two years ago makes me think they would try to do something similar. http://www.google.com/datacenter/lenoir/jobs.html http://www.google.com/datacenter/lenoir/jobs.html
- iuyhgtfvgbhjn 16y agoI assume they are getting a big chunk of local/national/eu grants to support the depressed area and a quick pass on building/environmental permits which you wouldn't get for building it in the capital. Plus as the article says - this is really the St. Petersburg/Stalingrad/Leningrad data center without the political problems of having to keep renaming it.
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- zeemonkee 16y agoSounds about right. Finnish main roads are surprisingly good all year round, and cars by law have to use special tires during the winter season.