Asian Nations Battle for Google Data Center

1sockchuck writes "Google is pitting foreign governments against one another in a battle for a major new data center in Asia. In the past week, both the prime minister of Malaysia and economic minister of Taiwan have said their countries are leading candidates for the Google project, with Japan, South Korea, India and Vietnam also mentioned as contenders in an 18-nation site selection process. Google typically invests $600 million in each new data center. Tech companies often use multi-site searches as a tool to coax incentives out of local governments, which sweeten their offers to outbid rivals from other regions. Google's Asian initiative appears to be taking this strategy to a new level, coaxing heads of state to invest political capital in their lust for one of Google's mega-datacenters."

Googlefight!

[chill]

This takes Googlefight to a whole new level.

Any one?

[Broken scope]

Am i the only one who thought of battle Royale?

Re:They only want the datacanter

[Anonymous Coward]

The best way to kill the market for WOW gold would be for all of you teabagging World of Warcraft faggots to get off of your lard butts and go outside. You know, that strange place beyond your bedroom, where normal people play sports and enjoy picnics.

do as you are trained...

[ritalinvillain]

do as you are trained... and kill the malaysian prime minister!

Re:Why not the Philippines?

[Anonymous Coward]

Typhoons, earthquakes, brownouts, rallies, and coups.

Iraq!

[russlar]

Seriously, why not Iraq? What better way to give their economy the kick in the ass it needs than to put Google's "All Your Base" datacenter there? A strong economy will stabilize Iraq, allowing us to get our people home, not to mention cementing relations between them and us.

Obligatory Homer

[phonicsmonkey]

$500M divided by 7600 is roughly equal to 65 million dollars a person.

"Lisa, with that $10,000 we'll be millionaires!"