During 2009, Google had sufficient data center capacity and opted to delay the construction of a planned data center in Pryor, OK. The company mentioned in its earnings that it is very satisfied with its 2009 cap ex and plans to remain disciplined going forward.
Meanwhile, the construction of a new data center in North Carolina may herald an era of tighter integration between software and services at Apple.
There are some projects underway, and the non-residential construction data show a bit of improvement.
The news comes as Apple finishes construction of a new 500, 000 foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina.
The index has been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of output from the production, services and construction sectors combined with agricultural output data and employee jobs data for the public sector.
But Joe Grice, chief economic adviser to the ONS, said the construction data was based on a survey of 8, 000 companies and had been carefully checked and double checked.
The data, which measures the construction of new homes and apartments, is a slightly lower drop than the annual rate of 985, 000 units that economists polled by Thomson Financial had expected.
If you can do more work with fewer servers and less power, it may be possible to extend the life of a data center and avoid capital intensive construction.
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The reason: Some of our data and anecdotes come from industrial or construction site events.
The estimate for construction output is based on published data for the first two months of the quarter, and an estimation for the third month.
There was fresh, weak data coming out of the European Union, as construction output declined by 0.4% in November, for an annual drop of 4.7%.
Government data showed U.S. builders stepping up construction of homes, while a private report showed the number of Americans with equity in their homes increased last year.
They have data not only on the value, construction type and number of buildings in an area, and the likely value of their household goods, but also on the local topography and vegetation.
"The idea of working from 3-D information to 3-D construction is one of the key areas of research, working from body scan data and then linking that up to a knitting machine, " says Black.
The department said the new index has been been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of the production, services and construction industries.
Census Bureau data show 58% of Sin City's working immigrants held vulnerable construction or service-sector jobs.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey, construction spending, the ISM manufacturing report and domestic auto industry sales.
The reasons for the profit drop include a jump in the cost of restricted stock units in the first quarter, as well as higher data center construction and marketing costs.
Private companies working on everything from the foundation to the roof of buildings are generating double-digit sales growth as the construction sector strengthens, according to data from Sageworks, a financial information company.
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Despite a few hiccups, stocks of builders, retailers and construction companies have enjoyed a big advance that could certainly fizzle if the data turn south.
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Reed Construction Data says that construction starts, excluding housing, increased 10.2% in the first three months of 2006.
However, construction companies seem to have been cutting staff and delaying hiring in recent months, according to a recent analysis of federal data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
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