Google announces plan to build $773M data center in the Netherlands by 2017

Google today announced a four-year plan to build an approximately $773.6 million (€600 million) data center located in the Netherlands.

Pitched as a way to bring jobs to the town of Eemshaven, Google says it expects to “start initial operations [on the data center] in the first half of 2016 and to be fully operational by the end of 2017.”

According to Google:

The new Dutch data centre will benefit from the latest designs in cooling and electrical technology. It will be free-cooled — taking advantage of natural assets like cool air and grey water to keep our servers cool. Our data centers use 50% less energy than a typical datacenter — and our intention is to run this new facility on renewable energy.

Google claims that this is its “fourth hyper efficient facility in Europe.” Google built its first European data center in Belgium back in 2007.

Via: The Next Web.