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 construction data follows similar positive news from the manufacturing sector on Tuesday, which showed that UK manufacturing in January expanded at its fastest pace since records began in 1992.
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.
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.
There are some projects underway, and the non-residential construction data show a bit of improvement.
Meanwhile, the construction of a new data center in North Carolina may herald an era of tighter integration between software and services at Apple.
Given improved housing data the construction sector became the most overvalued by 14.2% with consumer staples close behind at 13.4% overvalued on the talk of strong Black Friday holiday sales.
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Hatzius and Pandl looked at the recent payrolls data and then excluded construction jobs and found the trend remained unchanged.
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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.
This is due to inertia both in the way the data is estimated and in the actual construction process.
Activity data in the UK construction industry fell quicker than expected last month, driven mostly by the weakness in house-building (PMI construction: 48.7 from 49.3 in November).
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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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.
The department said the new index has been been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of the production, services and construction industries.
Taken together with new inventory and construction data, this means that the second-quarter growth figure may turn out to have been just 1.2%, rather than the first estimate of 2.4%.
However, recent data shows that construction spending in the US has been a bit sluggish.
Reed Construction Data says that construction starts, excluding housing, increased 10.2% in the first three months of 2006.
The negative data hurt shares in Japan's construction equipment makers and sent the benchmark Nikkei 225 index down 1.44%, to close at 13, 017.24.
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.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the employment report, personal income and outlays, the ISM manufacturing report, construction spending and domestic auto sales data.
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 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.
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%.
Privately held commercial and industrial builders have seen stronger sales growth than residential construction companies over the last 12 months, according to recent data from Sageworks Inc.
U.S. economic data due for release Monday includes construction spending, the ISM manufacturing report and domestic auto sales.
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The August ISM manufacturing survey, the August ADP Employment Report, July construction spending and August auto sales data will be published on Wednesday.
The reason: Some of our data and anecdotes come from industrial or construction site events.
The news comes as Apple finishes construction of a new 500, 000 foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina.
Traditionally contractors working on well construction and drilling have kept their data separately, and regarded the data as proprietary.
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