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Google to delay opening of Pryor facility

The delay, which will push back the opening from early next year to 2010, will also stall the creation of 100 jobs to staff the first building on the 800 acres owned by Google. Adrian Brown/Bloomberg News

By Robert Evatt, World Staff Writer
Published: 10/29/2008 11:28 AM
Last Modified: 10/29/2008 11:42 AM

Internet giant Google will delay activation of its server farm under construction at Mid-America Industrial Park in Pryor, park administrator Sanders Mitchell said Wednesday.

The delay, which will push back the opening from early next year to 2010, will also stall the creation of 100 jobs to staff the first building on the 800 acres owned by Google.

Mitchell said Google will activate and staff the server farm when the economy improves. The company at that time will revisit plans to construct a second building that would employ an additional 100 people.

Google uses server farms, or massive clusters of computers, to power its growing array of online services, from Internet searches to e-mail.

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By Robert Evatt, World Staff Writer

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charlestace, Tulsa (10/29/2008 9:37:37 PM)

Good chance that facility will never open, I'm afraid. That should be obvious by the time we get to 2010 and we're totally in the grip of the first World Depression.

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