Was browsing through the City Paper’s excellent blog and caught this potentially amazing news for tech in the Charleston area — could it be? Could Google expand into Goose Creek? That’d sure be a great alternative to the current stable (or lack thereof) of jobs that a computer science student wishing to stay in the area could take…
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Discussion of Google Creek? is now closed
Yeah, the site they’re looking to use is up on Highway 52 around Strawberry. There’s an industrial park that was made a few years ago. I wonder what the ping times would be when/if they decide to move in. Currently, I average 37ms, and that has to go all the way to CA.
If this is a Google data center, I don’t understand why they would consider it so close to a potentially very hurricane active coast.
Totally agreed Matthew — though I can’t imagine it’s much safer having company headquarters on the San Andreas Fault, either. :) The location of the potential data center suggests that they’ve at least somewhat taken the hurricane threat into account (i.e. no chance of destructive storm surge), and I think a facility could be built to withstand major hurricane-force winds.
The area they have chosen, according to Google Earth, is between 35 and 50 feet above sea level. It would take a double-strength Katrina to affect them. My house is at 57 feet above, since this part of the Creek is on a big hill.
I suppose if Google moves in, we’ll (those of us between MC and GC) lose power a lot less frequently.
I would have to imagine so. Alu-max (now Alcoa) drew up a contract with BEC after Hugo that basically says “for every (partial or full) hour we are without power, you have to pay us $25,000.”
So BEC makes that priority number 1 to keep that place powered. This will be interesting to see how it pans out.