• Fortune, Thursday, December 10, 2015 2:40 PM

Google is considering an interesting plan to further its cloud services, according to Barb Darrow, citing two sources. The company has about 70 data caching stations around the world that store copies of video, audio and popular web pages close to their likely audiences to speed their delivery. Those endpoints are key pieces of what Google calls its 'peering and content delivery network,' and the idea calls for these Google outposts to be outfitted with additional computing capacity so they would become sort of mini data centers, she writes.

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