Friday, April 18, 2014

The price of being webscale: Google spent $2.35B on infrastructure in Q1 — Tech News and Analysis [GigaOM]

A snapshot of the cloud infrastructure battle of attrition 

“Google announced its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, which included — as usual the past few quarters — an unparalleled amount of spending on data centers. The company spent $2.35 billion on infrastructure in the first quarter (much of which goes to building and filling data centers), up from $2.26 billion in last year’s fourth quarter and nearly double the $1.2 billion it spent in the first quarter of 2013.”

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The price of being webscale: Google spent $2.35B on infrastructure in Q1 — Tech News and Analysis

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