Google buys plot near Apple’s planned Danish datacentre

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COPENHAGEN: Alphabet Inc's Google said it has bought a plot of land in southern Denmark adjacent to a planned Apple Inc datacentre to make sure it has the option of building one there too. 

Apple said in July it would spend around US$950mil (RM3.94bil) to build a centre with a planned opening in 2019. If Google follows suit it would make the area one of the world's largest datacentre hubs, the local municipality Aabenraa said.