Westlin Corp (fka WSTN)

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BIG BUCKS GOING INTO DATA CENTERS ...

To accommodate all this CDN activity, Equinix IBC has been building new ma­jor data centers in Chicago, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., in 2007. The cost of Google’s new data center in Lenoir, N.C. has been pegged at $600 million, only hinting at the cost of more secretive and massive Google construc­tion in The Dalles, Ore. According to it.slashdot.com, Google has been constructing two more large data centers in South Carolina with an estimated $950 million price tag, while Microsoft pursues a $550-million build in Texas.

Billions more dollars will be spent by CDNs in filling these datacenters with multimedia servers and in acquiring fiber metro and backbone transport in and out of the datacenters.