Culver “Connects the Fiber” for new Google Project in Council Bluffs
Google has officially opened it’s new data center in Council Bluffs. House Democrats brought forward a proposal in 2007 that helped lure Google to Iowa – helping create more than 200 jobs in the Council Bluffs area. Similar programs were created to encourage Microsoft and IBM to locate operations in Iowa as well. The story from the Omaha World Herald (photo courtesy of Omaha World Herald):
COUNCIL BLUFFS – The next time you Google something, that search might be processed a few miles away, at the Internet company’s new data center in the Bluffs.
About 650 people gathered at the construction site Tuesday to celebrate the Iowa center going online.
The $600-million data center, located on 55-acres northwest of U.S. 275 and South 11th Street, will eventually employ about 200 people. The center houses computers that will run some of Google’s services, such as the search engine, Gmail, and Google Maps.
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