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My man John Markoff teamed up with Saul Hannsell to break the story on the massive Google computing center project in Oregon. The Dalles, Oregon is the home to the first visible move in the anticipated $1.5b investment in capacity this year. Microsoft’s share price got a slap last quarter when it was announced that $2b wouldn’t be handed back in dividends, but rather would be spent on ‘development.’

The next few years are going to feel a lot like the late 80’s with the Soviets and the Yankees making more missles than ultimately anyone would ever need. I haven’t figured out the design yet, but there are t-shirts to be made here; something involving Cyrillic and fiber and The People…