China Building City For Cloud Computing 142
CWmike writes "First it was China's 'big hole' sighting that brought us the supercomputing race. Now China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data center, one of the projects fueling that country's double-digit growth in IT spending. The entire complex will cover some 6.2 million square feet, with the initial data center space accounting for approximately 646,000 square feet, says IBM, which is collaborating with a Chinese company to build it. A Sputnik moment? Patrick Thibodeau reports that these big projects, whether supercomputers or sprawling software development office parks, can garner a lot of attention. But China's overall level of IT spending, while growing rapidly, is only one-fifth that of the US."
Is it located in one of their "ghost cities"? (Score:4, Informative)
Obviously off-topic, but interesting and wonderful fodder for the tin-foil hat crowd
It appears that China has built several cities meant to house millions of people, yet they remain completely empty:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html [dailymail.co.uk]
http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_340_30137.php [libertynewsonline.com]