Its new data centre in Taiwan has a 'robot' theme. The move comes as a growing number of people in Asia - which is home to more than half of the world's population - are getting connected to the internet.
Google said that having data centres in Asia will help it to provide faster and "more reliable" access to its tools and services to users in the region.
The two new centres are based in Taiwan and Singapore.
"The growth in Asia's Internet has been amazing," Joe Kava, vice president of data centres at Google.
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Changhua County, Taiwan Located about three hours down the coast from Taipei, our new data center in Changhua County sits on 15 hectares of land in the shadow of some of the 100 meter wind turbines that dot the coastal industrial park. The larger of our two new Asian data centers, our long-term (and expanded) investment will reach USD 600 million.
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Singapore
Singapore’s small size inspired us to try something a little different. Instead of spreading the data center out, we built it up, creating our first urban, multi-story data center. Our neighbors include a local primary school and several HDBs (for non-Singaporeans, HDBs are publicly run housing, which around 85% of Singaporean’s call home).
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"Users like speed, faster is better than slow on the web, if you think about it, you're only a click away from another service so bringing services to users in a speedy fashion and a reliable fashion is really critically important," said Julian Persaud, Managing Director, Google Southeast Asia.
"And if you look at Southeast Asia in particular, it's one of the fastest growing regions in the world for users coming online so it's important that we keep up with users and think ahead and make sure we can deliver those services quickly," he added.
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