Google宣布将在新加坡、香港和台湾建造亚太数据中心，目的是让亚洲用户能更稳定的访问其服务。
Google表示，它已经在香港九龙购买了2.7公顷的土地建造数据中心；新加坡的建造位置是裕廊岛，面积2.45公顷；台湾是在彰化县，面积15公顷。建造香港和台湾的数据中心预计将分别投入1亿美元以上，新加坡的投资没有披露。
香港政府资讯科技总监麦鸿崧表示欢迎，称香港拥有有利营商的环境，资讯自由流通，资讯科技基建完善，电力供应可靠，具备优越条件成为区内的数据中心枢纽。
谷歌计划在港设数据中心
2011年09月28日
谷歌今天（9月28日）宣布，计划在香港设立数据中心。政府资讯科技总监麦鸿崧表示欢迎，并相信谷歌可藉着香港的优势提升区内的业务。
麦鸿崧说，再有大型跨国企业选择在港设立数据中心，足证香港是区内设立数据中心的上佳地点。当局会继续向有意发展和营运数据中心的企业积极推广香港的竞争优势，鼓励他们在港设立对业务发展具策略作用的数据中心。
他指出，香港拥有有利营商的环境，资讯自由流通，资讯科技基建完善，电力供应可靠，具备优越条件成为区内的数据中心枢纽。
根据顾问公司Cushman & Wakefield与hurleypalmerflatt，6月联合发表的「数据中心风险指数」，香港是亚洲设立数据中心风险最低的地方，在报告内全球20个经济体中排名第4。
为推动更多高端数据中心在香港发展，政府资讯科技总监办公室7月成立数据中心促进组，并设立专题网站，为有意在香港设立数据中心的机构提供一站式谘询和支援服务，以及协调各政府部门提供有关协助。
Google Announces Plans To Build Data Centers In Singapore, Taiwan & Hong Kong
AsianScientist (Sep. 28, 2011) – Google announced today plans to build its first proprietary Asia-Pacific data centers in Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It has also begun advertising for Asia-Pacific data center project managers.
For its Hong Kong center, the Internet search company announced that it had acquired 2.7 hectares of land in Kowloon to build a data center that would provide users across Asia more reliable access to Google’s services.
While it could not provide specific timelines nor figures as it was still finalizing plans, the company revealed that the facility will be operational within 1-2 years of construction.
Investment in the data centers in Hong Kong and Taiwan would exceed $100 million each, it said. It did not give a figure for the Singapore center.
The company expects to hire 5-20 full time staff at the Hong Kong and Taiwan centers, and be among the most efficient and environmentally friendly in Asia.
Citing increased online traffic from Asia, the company said in a press statement that locating data centers here was a natural step, and “an important next stage of Google’s investment in the region.”
A Singapore site for the data center – a 2.45 hectare plot on Jurong Island – has been chosen.
For its Taiwan data center, Google will acquire 15 hectares of land in Changhua County.
Google already has 15 offices and thousands of employees across the Asia Pacific region, including an office in Hong Kong. The company owns six data centers in the US, one in Belgium, and one in Finland.