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Fidelity Investments will build a massive data center in Papillon, Nebraska (a suburb of Omaha).
Fidelity has committed to invest a minimum of $200 million to construct and outfit the data center. Completion is expected in 2014.
The governor of Nebraska cited his state’s lower power rates and and central U.S. location as key factors in attracting the project, along with tax incentives.
http://www.governor.nebraska.gov/news/2012/10/12_data_center.html
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From the Technology Graveyard
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Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
