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June 20, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Search engine giant Google (google.com) announced on Wednesday that it plans to build a data center in Western Iowa worth approximately $600 million.
According to reports, Google has already started construction on a 55-acre site in Council Bluffs, Iowa across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska. The data center is expected to create about 200 jobs with an average salary of about $50,000. The center is scheduled to open in 2009 at the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation's new business park.
To attract Google, Iowa lawmakers say they passed a bill that would exempt electricity and capital investment requirements from sales tax for computer-related businesses. Reports say that Google will get a property tax break through 2024, but will end up paying about $65 million in property taxes over the next 15 years. Google also will pay an estimated $6 million in sales taxes over the next couple of years as it purchases building materials and will spend thousands on electricity franchise fees.
Google is in the midst of expanding its data center footprint with recent announcements that it plans on building $600 million data centers in Lenoir, North Carolina and Blythewood, South Carolina.
Google also recently announced plans to build a $600 million data center in Pryor, Oklahoma.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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