Since purchasing 2011 hectares of land in Changhua, Taiwan in 15 and officially opening the Taiwan Data Center in 2013, providing Cloud Region services in the Asia-Pacific region, it has now entered its 10th year. Google emphasizes that it will continue to promote the Smart Taiwan project in a local symbiotic form, allowing Taiwan to become the Silicon Valley of Asia and promote the development of services such as artificial intelligence and cloud applications.
In addition to opening a data center in Taiwan, Google has also announced the construction of the PLCN submarine cable and the opening of the Taiwan extension of the FASTER submarine cable in the past few years. It also announced an investment in the Apricot submarine cable. This year, it announced an investment in the construction of the TPU submarine cable, which uses multi-core fiber (MCF) technology for the first time, allowing the Taiwan data center to establish faster network connection speeds with more regions, thereby improving the operational efficiency of more network services.
Regarding local symbiotic development, Google began recruiting data center interns in 2018, and completed Asia's first renewable energy transaction in Taiwan in 2019. In 2022, it cooperated with the Junyi Education Platform to provide digital teaching and learning resources to teachers in Changhua and Miaoli, and achieved 100% use of industrial water to reduce environmental impact.
According to data, as of 2021, international submarine cable projects invested by Google and landed in Taiwan have created more than 6.4 jobs in Taiwan and contributed US$260 billion to GDP.
At the same time, Google emphasized that its data centers are, on average, 1.5 times more energy-efficient than typical data centers. Even with the electricity consumption of data centers five years ago, the current architecture can generate three times more computing power. This includes a computing platform designed with carbon intelligence, which allows data centers to locate and operate at optimal zero-carbon electricity. It also uses its own designed TPU processor to significantly improve server performance, as well as intelligent temperature control, lighting, and cooling control, allowing the data center to achieve higher computing performance with less electricity.
Google's current network infrastructure primarily consists of data centers that store and transmit information for general Internet users, Google Cloud Region services that provide cloud services to enterprise users, and investments in the deployment and operation of global submarine cables. These developments will enable more people and businesses to use more robust and high-speed Google products and platform services, and will also help meet the growing global demand for Internet usage during the process of facility expansion and technological development.
Google Data Center's 10th anniversary in Taiwan
2011
• Purchased 15 hectares of land in Changhua for a data center with an investment of US$6 million
2013
• Launched Google's first data center and cloud region in Asia Pacific
2015
• Started to promote the data center community public welfare project in Taiwan
2016
• Provided seed funding to the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions to promote renewable energy certificates in Asia, starting with Taiwan
• Announced investment in the construction of PLCN submarine cable
• Taiwan extension of FASTER submarine cable opened
• Promoted waste management programs and became one of the first data centers in the world to achieve zero waste to landfill
2018
• First recruitment of data center interns
2019
• Completed Google's first renewable energy deal in Asia
2020
• Announcement of data center security protection mechanism
2021
• Announced investment in Apricot submarine cable
2022
• Cooperate with the Junyi Education Platform to provide digital teaching training for teachers in Changhua and Miaoli areas
• Complete 100% use of industrial water
2023
• Announced investment in the construction of the TPU submarine cable, the first to use multi-core fiber (MCF) technology
• 10th anniversary of opening, completion of phased expansion
