Google Buys Finnish Paper Mill 166
raffnix writes "Today, Finland-based paper group Stora Enso has announced that Google is buying the buildings and most of the Summa Mill site, where production of paper was ceased last month, for approximately 40 million Euros ($51.7 million). Obviously the space is most likely going to serve as a data center, which has now also been confirmed by
Reuters."
Media has it Wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Shows what the media knows. Haven't they heard of GMail Paper [google.com]? Here's the spiel from Google:
With Google's ad revenue suffering due to economic conditions, I imagine they need this new source of revenue very badly. For those who are curious, Wikipedia has a great article [wikipedia.org] detailing the history of this new venture by Google.
Data center? A likely story (Score:4, Funny)
No, I see what Google's angle is. Get everybody using computers, move away from paper, and once nobody else is making paper suddenly Google will come out with the latest hot product only available on paper! And you have to have this product; nay, you need this product. You couldn't face your friends and family without it. This plan is so cunning, so clever, so devious, you could stick a tail on it and call it Karl Rove.
Old News? Wrong Headline? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought everyone new that due to the advent of Internet and Google (docs, mail, etc) *ALL* Paper Mills were Finnished.
Google Buys building. (Score:4, Funny)
wow.
A paper mill is just a big building. I use to work for a company where the building use to be an old saw mill. Heck the house I live in use to be a small Candy Factory.
Gmoney (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Its 2009 already! (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe that story got stuck in the firehose for 1 year.
Re:Data center? A likely story (Score:5, Funny)
Primatech (Score:5, Funny)
Are you sure it wasn't Primatech they aquired? That would fit perfectly with their "Don't be evil" motto.
Mistake in headline: (Score:5, Funny)
Should be "Google to produce hardcopy of Internet"
Re:Media has it Wrong (Score:1, Funny)
Phew... for a minute I thought the headline was a reference to google buying another Finnish paper mill called "Nokia" which owns the QT windowing system.
Finnish Him! (Score:2, Funny)
Doesn't sound like google they don't finnish anything half their products are still in beta!
its not good enough for google (Score:3, Funny)
to merely put the newspaper industry's reason for existence into doubt
now google actually has to go out and confiscate newspapers' means of production and forcibly convert paper mills into data centers? talk about insult on top of injury
i think someone at google is taking this whole notion of the digital "revolution" a little too seriously, no? do they assassinate rupert murdoch and demolish the conde nast building next?
Re:Its 2009 already! (Score:1, Funny)
I was wondering why 2008 felt much longer than 2007.
Re:Media has it Wrong (Score:4, Funny)
One of my favorite parts of the joke was the testimonial:
"Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldnâ(TM)t go."
Mayumi M., Associate
Re:The "Paper Mill" part is incidental (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The "Paper Mill" part is incidental (Score:2, Funny)