As a followup to the previous story, Google has chosen North Carolina for building a new $600 million USD data center facility. The fact that North Carolina previously offered an incentives package for Google that could grow up to $100 million (if Google stays in the region), definitely played a part in Google’s choice. The new facility will hold server farms and will employ over 200 employees, most of whom will be network and server specialists. Google will use the facility for its next generation of search and database-intensive applications, particularly its new "Similarity Engine".
"This company will provide hundreds of good-paying, knowledge-based jobs that North Carolinas citizens want. It will help reinvigorate an area hard hit by the loss of furniture and textile jobs with 21st century opportunities," said North Carolina’s state governor Mike Easley.
News source: DailyTech
"This company will provide hundreds of good-paying, knowledge-based jobs that North Carolinas citizens want. It will help reinvigorate an area hard hit by the loss of furniture and textile jobs with 21st century opportunities," said North Carolina’s state governor Mike Easley.
News source: DailyTech
Its a good idea, but not a well thought out one - all very nice talking about '21st century jobs' but lets talk about the reality for the moment, statistically, 75% of people never go to university and obtain a degree; for the vast majority of people out there, they rely on manual labour jobs, service jobs (aka retail) and the likes. Buzz words aren't going to fix the underlying facts that some are not academically inclined, no matter how much they study, and they do deserve the right to get a job, just as the high educated do.
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Note to younger future IT workers: There are very good jobs in manufacturing IT if you don't mind getting dirty on occasion. You can make very good money and not have to sit behind a desk all day. Someone has to design and implement all of the cool automation you see at car companies and other manufacturing facilities. note: I get to program robots everyday.
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Cool, thanks for the information, I'm a little geographically challenged given that I'm down here in New Zealand.
Oh, as a side note, in New Zealand, you can earn more money being a plumber, builder, bricky or a sparky than a programmer or some other IT related job.
Regarding the cost, it would be interesting to know whether Google is going to deploy those SPARC T1 machines which Sun is selling, and Googled showed off - coupled with 'OpenSolaris' rumours in regards to the company adopting it, I'd love to see what the make up of the datacentre will be like.
Datacenter jobs are boring.
For Microsoft Search, Google, Akamai usually you have a maintainence staff of ten people per thousands of machines.
the two blokes that founded google are worth about 12-14 billion each
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
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