Monday, November 4, 2013

Google in Finland is so cool!

Cool news from Finland! Google is investing in Finland. A lot! A little town named Hamina near russian border will receive another investment from Google which is expanding it's server farm. Why Hamina, Finland? Partly because of the cool weather. It takes a lot of energy to cool server farms... but not over here. Just open the window and you'll freeze to death ;P . Another part of the story is, in my opinion, the location of Hamina. Russia and it's second biggest town St. Petersburg is next door. So russian and asian clients can be served this way. Also, finnish stable infrastructure goes to show that nothing much changes here. That's a benefit. And only 50 km west from Hamina there is a nuclear power plant offering cheap energy. Keep in mind that a russian search engine Yandex is also staying in Finland mainly because of the same reasons as Google.

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