IBM is collaborating with China-based Range Technology to build a city-sized cloud computing data center in Langfang, Heibei province that will be comparable in size to the Pentagon. The 646,000 square foot facility, to be completed in 2016, will be made up of several buildings and will mainly serve China’s government departments, but will also be open to banks and public enterprises, according to PCWorld.
The data center is meant to support the development of a new information technology hub being built in the area, said IBM spokeswoman Harriet Ip.
IBM, the vendor for the project, did not disclose the cost of the data center. But the company said Range Technology is spending about $1.49 billion on the building of the Langfang Range International Information Hub, of which the data center will be a part.
China has made lots of noise with its IT spending of late. The country presently possesses the world’s fastest supercomputer and is currently building a facility that will best it. Despite all the headlines, China’s IT spending, forecast at $112 billion in 2011, is dwarfed by that of the projected $564 billion in IT spending for the U.S.
Range Technology, an Internet data center services provider, was founded in 2009. Earlier this month, the company and IBM formed a strategic partnership on cloud computing and software services.
In terms of size, the data centers will be among the world’s biggest. The largest known data center complex is a 1.1-million-square-foot facility in Chicago owned by Digital Realty Trust, according to Data Center Knowledge, which has ranked the data centers by size.
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Wow, that is huge, A city sized Data center..It will certainly be a man made marvel. And the 564$ billion IT spending forecast of the US, that too is huge, Certainly some great inventions are going to be made this year. I wonder how much is the IT spending forecast of India
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I have least doubt about India’s IT spending. But with great minds like Raja and company in action, I doubt if India can do any wonders like the one above.
by the actions of Raja and alike people India will need more 20-50 years to get to this level..
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hmmm intesting.
Is india going to do similar to that?
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India can never match up with China… we people are still way behind them.. although i don’t like China but looking at India’s politicians … I can easily say never
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Very impressive! China is way ahead on the Cloud game and even has their government (though Communist) jumping on board. Any tours?
So what is the real meaning behind this why are they doing this? I just because they China isn’t free, is this part of their big brother?