{"id":28,"date":"2007-01-22T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-01-22T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T20:22:00","slug":"google-is-expanding-to-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2007\/01\/22\/google-is-expanding-to-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is Expanding to North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $600 million computer server farm is scheduled to be built by Google in North Carolina.  Google has quietly been expanding out of California and now even has an office in Washington DC.  Now, it is expanding it techno-empire into the farm lands of North Carolina.  The new server farm or data center will employ about 200 people.<\/p>\n<p>Google currently has three large server centers that we know of.  We use the various <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\">IP<\/span> addresses for testing and so we&#8217;ll be on the lookout for the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\">IP<\/span> address of this new center as well.<\/p>\n<p>Just click the post title to read the full short article online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $600 million computer server farm is scheduled to be built by Google in North Carolina. Google has quietly been expanding out of California and now even has an office in Washington DC. Now, it is expanding it techno-empire into the farm lands of North Carolina. The new server farm or data center will employ about 200 people. Google currently has three large server centers that we know of. We use the various IP addresses for testing and so we&#8217;ll be on the lookout for the IP address of this new center as well. 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