Building Google Takes Many Rocket Scientists

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 by Andy Beal

Building Google Takes Many Rocket Scientists

With the ubiquity of new "Google killers" you’d think that building a search engine wasn’t exactly rocket science. Well, actually, it is. So Google has signed a 40-year lease for a 1.2 million-square-foot campus at the NASA Ames Research Center.

It seems Google needs the space for more than just parking its 767 jet plane.

The NASA deal sets Google’s initial rent for 42.2 acres of land at $3.66 million per year. Google didn’t estimate how much it would cost to build the new campus, which will begin construction in 2013 and will include some housing for employees. Google expects to start the final phase of the campus in 2022.

How’s that for confidence? Google expects to be a fully functioning death star search engine for at least the next 14 years!

So, how many rocket scientists does it take to keep Google growing? Who knows, but Google will be in a prime location to recruit them.

Google hopes the location of its new offices will make it easier to draw on the brain power of NASA’s rocket scientists and give it another competitive advantage over its rivals.

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10 comments on “Building Google Takes Many Rocket Scientists”

Top Rated Says:

June 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

These guys are so friggin huge it’s scary. Fascinating, yes, but still scary. You really have to wonder what they’re dreaming up next.

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Gidseo Says:

June 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Wow… Welcome to Google World.

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Shonzilla Says:

June 5th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Is that the emerging 51st US state called Googlania?

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Symbian Says:

June 6th, 2008 at 6:47 am

I think NASA’s building got great IT infrastructure.

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DeeMX Says:

June 6th, 2008 at 7:18 am

New project will be called NasaGoogle
Google really have the Great Secret plan to building Google Universe
D Legal Says:

June 6th, 2008 at 10:18 am

Just finished reading conspiracy theory on how the US government is now in bed with Google and mining all the data that’s being passed over the internet. That theory isn’t looking so much like a conspiracy after reading this article.
Diamond Says:

June 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Google will probably now get better pictures for Google Earth, hehe
Nicole Price Says:

June 6th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

I am no big fan of the big g. But boy do they dream big. You have got to admire them for it.

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Warenwirtschaft Says:

June 7th, 2008 at 6:12 am

I agree with “Top Rated”. Google brings fantastic new technologies but they are really scary. Big Brother was a small fantasy in relation to the knowledge in googles databases.
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