Google buys Dublin’s tallest office building for €99.9M

[Mike Lucey]

Hi Guys,

Just noticed on the News that Google has purchased Dublin's tallest office building for €99.9M. The 67-meter Montevetro building in Dublin's Grand Canal Dock district has 15 stories, 210,000 square feet of office space and can house about 2,000 staff.

Mike

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[Krisidious]

pocket change for them... probably less than the monthly electric bill for one of their data centers... I'm amazed at the purchase power of that company.

[Gaieus]

Why do I never hear about such business and investment opportunities beforethe actual sale?

[TIG]

So that's where we're all moving to when they finally get their act together..............

[Rich O Brien]

Anyone interested in working for Google in Dublin can send their CVs to Mike.

[solo]

Google gearing up for the tablet wars.

They started taunting Apple already.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/02/17/google-offers-one-pass-to-challenge-apple-subscription-system/

[mitcorb]

Google demo'ed a new app for them called "Goggle" today on CNN the big I. Basically, take a picture of something with your phone camera and Google will use the image to do a websearch for related stuff. I guess they will fill the new building with servers wall to wall roof to basement just to handle the datasearch. No room for people, except custodians.

[honoluludesktop]

They should take a fraction of that money, and invest it in SketchUp development:-)

[mitcorb]

They are already taking a fraction of that other money and investing it in Sketchup development.

[honoluludesktop]

Guess they are not spending it in the areas I am interested in. Such as ruby API for LayOut, multi user interface with entity locking, debugging and expanding the sketchup ruby API, and better texture controls.

[mitcorb]

Well, I didn't mean to sound rude. I agree to an extent. I just believe with a big operation like that, they have a lot of irons in the fire and plenty of squeaky wheels