Growing the Googleplex

Google has apparently got permission to construct three massive data centres, and two are already nearing completion. According to the New York Times, Google is pretty mum about its plans for the data centres, each as large as a football field, with giant cooling fans rising four stories from the buildings. Google has positioned the data centres strategically -- close to electrical power and dark fibre. Just what Google is up to is a good question. The company has been acquiring large amounts of dark fibre, and recently, it made a massive purchase of IPv6 numbers.