Google to spend $200 mln at new Finnish site

Wed Mar 4, 2009 9:34am EST

HELSINKI, March 4 (Reuters) - Google (GOOG.O) said on Wednesday it would spend 160 million euros ($200 million) to build a new data centre at the site of an old paper mill in southeastern Finland.

"We are looking at employing around 200 people in the building phase, and about 50 people when it is up and running," Google Finland Country Manager Petri Kokko said. "We hope to have (the centre) at testing level by the first half of 2010."

Google said last month it would buy an old paper mill from papermaker Stora Enso (STERV.HE) for 40 million euros and set up a data centre there.

(Reporting by Brett Young)

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