Data centers in Oregon: High tech meets high desert – Google searches for privacy, finds a community – Oregon is a great deal for server farms. Is the deal too good?

Data centers arrived in Oregon five years ago, cloaked in mystery. There’s no hiding them now.

By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/11/data_clouds_settle_in_oregon_w.html

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Google searches for privacy, finds a community

Google just wanted to be left alone.

By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/11/google_searches_for_privacy_fi.html

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"Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet."

"You will never open an e-mail in quite the same way again."

http://matr.net/article-47322.html

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Oregon is a great deal for server farms. Is the deal too good?

What looks best, though, won’t show up on any postcard: Tax breaks.

By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/11/do_centers_get_more_than_they.html