Google Seeks To Stretch Farther in Northwest Omaha

Google wants to expand its Nebraska footprint with an additional 187 acres that abuts its roughly 270-acre data center site already under construction in northwest Omaha. Nebraska Examiner reports: In all, the developer representing Google would control about 460 acres of once rolling agricultural hillside northwest of State Street and Blair High Road. City documents show that Westwood Solutions LLC, representing the California-based global tech giant, has asked the city to rezone the additional land to allow for more light industrial use. Operations are to be located within multiple buildings totaling more than 2.2 million gross square feet in floor area, with various equipment yards and parking areas throughout. A security entrance and Omaha Public Power District switchyard are to be on site. The data center would operate around the clock. Though the plan submitted to the city says skilled, technical full-time jobs would be created, it does not detail how many.

Consuming power and acreage

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't sound exactly desirable, except to the bankers

contract work

[awwshit]

> Though the plan submitted to the city says skilled, technical full-time jobs would be created, it does not detail how many.

They also forgot to mention that these will be short-term contract positions with minimum pay and no benefits. These are not good jobs and the positions will not be with Google directly.

Re:

[KlomDark]

You are retarded. Nebraska might be Red, but Omaha is blue-to-purple, depending on where you live. No forced church attendance. Just graffiti from wannabe hoodrats.

Around the clock

[TomWinTejas]

Wow... the datacenter will be running around the clock? So they won't shut down the servers at 5 PM? The rest of us content providers should learn something here.

Omaha says ...

[PPH]

... we're ready. Bring it on. Our telephone lineman will be by in about 6 months to hook up your DSL line.

Welcome to the fly-over states.

no agenda here

[otherPerry]

"what was once rolling agricultural hillside". sounds so idyllic. So it was routinely torn up, soaked in pesticides and fertilizers, creating run off issues, or it was unused..... but no, the evil parking lots are taking over!!!

Slow down Google

[KlomDark]

They've already got a big Omaha data center, then two more just across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Aka East Omaha, aka Council-tucky)

And if Meta doesn't get it's shit together, then the super-big Facebook data center is also going to be available soon.