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Intel to Build Online Services Site
In Virginia to House 8,000 Servers
Associated Press
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Intel Corp., the world's leading maker of
computer chips, said Tuesday it will locate a $130 million Internet
service center in Virginia that will employ 250 people.
Intel Online Services will house more than 8,000 servers and run
the Web sites and e-commerce operations of numerous
companies at the Fairfax County site.
The 73,000 square foot building near
Dulles International Airport should be in
operation by early 2000. That will make
it a neighbor to the world's largest
Internet-services company, Dulles,
Va.-based America Online Inc.
The Virginia suburbs of Washington,
D.C., have seen enormous growth in
high-tech and Internet businesses in
recent years.
"A large and growing proportion of the
world's Internet traffic flows through Virginia," Mike Aymar, Intel
vice president and general manager of Intel Online Services,
said. "That made Virginia a natural location for Intel's expanding
Internet-services hosting business."
The first two Internet service centers of Intel Online Services
already are operational. One is a production plant in Santa Clara,
Calif., and the other is a development facility in Folsom, Calif. The
company plans to develop similar centers in Japan and England.
Besides being the world's largest maker of computer chips, Intel
is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and
communications products. |
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