Google has cancelled plans to build a US$300 million data centre in Hong Kong.
Asia-Pacific policy communications manager said yesterday, “While we see tremendous opportunity and potential in Hong Kong … we will not be moving ahead with this project.”
The Hong Kong government has also confirmed that Google has surrendered the Tseung Kwan O site and Google had said that a lack of land availability in Hong Kong has made them decide to focus on locations where they can build for economies of scale.
Google operates 12 data centres globally and it has announced a US$300 million data centre in Taiwan and US$120 million facility in Singapore.
Apparently Googles data centres overseas are environmentally friendly and hard to replicate in Hong Kong. Some are blaming the government specifically the Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying for letting the deal fall through.
Source: SCMP
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