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There's a huge """secret""" Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa that appears to be in the finishing phases of completion. I talked yesterday to a union
by skim_milk 6y ago
There's a huge """secret""" Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa that appears to be in the finishing phases of completion. I talked yesterday to a union worker who is moving to Des Moines to work on a new Microsoft data center there tonight, it appears that work is drying up at this data center here and a lot of the travelling blue collar folk are leaving this area.
I wonder if this data center coming apparently partially online is a part of the problem?
Also, after this he is likely to work on an Amazon fulfillment center next year - impressed by all the (albeit temporary) blue collar jobs created by FAANG at the moment!
- throwawayinfo 6y agoSpoiler alert: it's not.
- SteveNuts 6y agoI think by now Google has lots of experience with bringing data centers online, so this seems incredibly far fetched to me.
- jeffbee 6y agoLOL you mean this one that has a big sign out front that's been there for years and years? https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2197694,-95.8658016,3a,89.3y,307.91h,90.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNSMqEK0LvfGn4FY_ijLw1Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2197694,-95.8658016,3a,89.3y...
- joshuamorton 6y agoAlso like: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/
- tidepod12 6y agoAren't there GCP regions in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City? Interesting that those DCs don't seem to be on this public list.
- tedd4u 6y agoOMG just at the end of the fence there's A BACKHOE RIGHT NEXT TO BURIED FIBER INDICATOR POLES!!! https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2196753,-95.8611598,3a,75.4y,21.19h,91.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMacn-1p2tJtwimRefUZU4A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2196753,-95.8611598,3a,75.4y...
- tidepod12 6y agoFWIW he's probably talking about this one, which is newer/still under construction and not as well known (although it's certainly not "secret"). https://goo.gl/maps/sdJYnU4dsSNedrLfA https://goo.gl/maps/sdJYnU4dsSNedrLfA
- skim_milk 6y agoI should have been less esoteric, but yes this one. From what I can tell a gaggle of Google employees have taken over control of the building and I'd assume this absolute unit is in the process of coming online. Sure there's a Google sign visible from the private road leading up to it but you'd still have to be a nosy local (or apparently an all-knowing HN reader) to know the exact location.
- jeffbee 6y agoEven that one opened 7 years ago.
- tidepod12 6y agoOne building of it opened in 2013 (and another in 2016 AFAIK), but it is currently still under construction (in the Google Maps view, the entire construction site south of the completed buildings are also slated to be Google DCs).
- skim_milk 6y agono.
- qmarchi 6y agoNot super well known, but Google has quite a few Datacenters that aren't used for Google Cloud, but are reserved for internal use.
- throwawayinfo 6y agoProbably the other way around, no?
- cwxm 6y agono he was correct
- rezonant 6y agoOof. This DC has been around since 2007. I can make a VM in it on GCP right now :-)