"We strive to spend the $5.6 billion in the second half of 2007 to build three major data centers in Sioux City, Capital and Lincheng in China, just using the $1 billion in financing funds brought back this time, and the budget is just right." Luo Sheng began to make detailed decisions.

With the current Internet infrastructure and user scale in China, it is completely sufficient to build these three major data centers to meet the current commercial scale, and it is completely unnecessary to build too many data centers, and the construction cost and operating cost are too scary.

Once it is built, it means that hundreds of millions of dollars will be burned steadily every year.

Two hours have passed since the meeting lasted, but everyone is extremely excited, because the blueprint drawn by Luo Sheng is really magnificent.

Luo Sheng continued: "Nine large-scale data centers have been built overseas, including one in Northern Virginia, one in Seattle, two in the Bay Area of California, one in Oregon, one in Osaka, one in Dublin, one in Frankfurt and one in Sydney. ”

As soon as Erin heard him say this, she immediately spoke: "The operating cost overseas is higher, even if you build 9 data centers, plus 3 in China...... Wasn't the $5.6 billion raised in the IPO used to build data centers? ”

Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "The operating cost of overseas data centers is high, but the income in the future will also be high, after all, developed countries. The money from this financing is used to build our cloud computing service project, otherwise this money can only lie on the company's accounts as cash reserves, the company's current operating profit growth rate has been greater than the growth of operating expenses, and the financial income and expenditure are very healthy. ”

Zhang Bowen said: "In the field of cloud computing services, our competitor is Amazon. ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng shook his head: "Of course, Amazon is a big competitor, but it won't be long, and even less than half a year will soon have more players enter this field, Microsoft, Google, these technology giants once they realize the potential of cloud computing, they will definitely speed up the pace to follow up, maybe these giants have begun to prepare secretly, and it will definitely be difficult to enter the overseas market, especially the access qualifications of the North American market, the United States will definitely be stuck with us, this must be prepared and formulate a response strategy in advance." ”

Everyone couldn't help but nod, and Amazon launched an elastic computing cloud service in a low-key manner in March this year.

However, the current Amazon company is really a younger brother in the eyes of Bluestar Technology Group, and its core business is now e-commerce, which can be seen from the market value, and it is really a younger brother.

Amazon's current market capitalization remains at around $15 billion, while Bluestar Technology Group's market capitalization is now sitting on the top of the charts, sprinting towards $80 billion.

In terms of free cash flow, Bluestar Technology is now also completely bursting with Amazon.

Even if other companies are already secretly preparing, Luo Sheng is confident that he will win more than 70% of the market share of the cloud computing service market in the future.

Luo Sheng dared not hesitate to spend five or six billion dollars from this year to next year, which is equivalent to the scale of Google's total revenue last year.

Other companies, Google, or even Microsoft, would never dare to be as crazy as Luo Sheng.

Because cloud computing services are still a new and unfamiliar field at present, as early as the eighties and nineties of the last century, there has been a prototype of the concept, and after so many years, there is still no big improvement, it is impossible to invest so crazy.

With a scale of five or six billion US dollars, or in the era of 2006, in any giant group company, such a large amount of astronomical money, how dare you smash into a new field that is still unclear?

In case of a waste, if a professional manager is in charge of this company, as soon as the financial report comes out, it will be rolled up tomorrow.

They don't have Luo Sheng's prescient vision.

When he reacted, Bluestar Technology had become unbeatable in the field of cloud computing services, and Luo Sheng liked this feeling of throwing others N streets, as a trendsetter of the times.

This life is all about waves!

This highly confidential internal meeting was almost over, and finally Luo Sheng looked at Zhang Bowen and said, "Lao Zhang, the matter of building a data center will be left to you, and you go and talk to someone from IBM." ”

Zhang Bowen nodded: "Understood." ”

This matter is extremely important to Bluestar Technology Group, which is related to the strategic vision layout of the times and spanning more than ten years, and it is also the most important task of the group company this year.

However, he still handed it over to Zhang Bowen to grasp, firstly, to rest assured, secondly, Lao Zhang's ability is beyond doubt, and secondly, Luo Sheng still has to take care of the affairs of the Cote d'Azur company.

This matter is more important.

This year is 2006, a year that changed the world, Lens Semiconductor and the Cote d'Azur Laboratory are blossoming, and various core technologies are constantly breaking through under the leadership of Luo Sheng.

The first real smartphone is about to arrive this year, and it has to be available before Apple's iPhone.

The Cote d'Azur company, which has been immersed in several years, will be shocked by the world.

……

Zhang Bowen began to implement the new tasks set by Luo Sheng for Bluestar Technology, and the group company entered the field of cloud computing services without hesitation.

This is a super-large, ultra-long-term project, which exceeds any previous project of Bluestar Technology Group.

Zhang Bowen was actually very stressed, and he began to actively prepare for the next few days, and was ready to go to North America again before the end of the month to meet with IBM's senior management to discuss business cooperation.

More than 10,000 employees of this huge technology group are performing their duties, and the major business segments are also steadily advancing, and users continue to grow.

The company completed the spin-off and reorganization at the end of last year, and the first heads of the major subsidiaries have been in office for almost a quarter, and so far Luo Sheng is satisfied with their performance, and no one has major problems.

In the coming days, Luo Sheng's main focus is undoubtedly on the [Azure] project plan of the Cote d'Azur company, and the preparation for this year's autumn conference is also about to catch up with the schedule.

Choosing to release in September has no other meaning, because whether it is domestic or foreign, after September is the peak sales season, for example, the domestic October has just had a long holiday, and other companies will basically choose this time node to sell new products.

……

Two days later, when Luo Sheng was focusing on the [Azure] project, he didn't know that there was a big name in the technology industry who had crossed the ocean from North America to China for the first time, and he came to him directly.

That person was Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple.

That morning, Qiao Gang, who came on a special plane, got off the plane in Shencheng, went out of the terminal and looked around and sighed: "I never thought that one day I would come to this mysterious oriental country, and come here to ask for people to ensure that new products can be born smoothly." ”

This is going to start from last year in 2005, and there is another thing that happened in the North American tech circle, which is related to Apple.

Last year, Apple made its first foray into the mobile phone industry with Motorola to launch an iTunes phone, the Motorola Rockr.

Joe's phone is part of the same 4L TR product line as Motorola's Razr, a mobile phone released in 2004.

The main model is the V3.

Back in 2004, the Razr was arguably one of the best-selling phones in the world.

At that time, Apple, the iPod had just ruled the digital music industry, and MusicSpace had not yet been launched.

Apple saw the potential of the Razr, and coincidentally, the head of Motorola parachuted in at that time happened to be an old friend of Joe's gang.

was "fooled" by the old buddy, and the Qiao gang leader got on the "thief ship" of his old friend for many years.

Apple's partnership with Motorola is certainly a no-brainer.

Rockr was born, which is Apple's first mobile phone, and it can be regarded as Joe's test of the waters here.

However, after this mobile phone went on sale, it was laughed off by the media, and sure enough, the Rockr, which was launched last year, has been cold this year, and it really can't die anymore.

In fact, before the Rockr was launched, Qiao Gang already knew that the phone was going to be cool, so the iPhone was also secretly developed at that time.

It's just that what makes Joe's gang leader confused is that the iPhone is unexpectedly in big trouble.

Because, many key patented technologies have been stuck, such as the extremely critical multi-touch screen patent has been applied for registration on March 22 last year.

Only then did this investigation reveal that it was the mysterious eastern power from the other side of the Pacific Ocean that had just joined the WTO for five years, and the Cote d'Azur Company, which had only been established for two or three years.

In fact, many technologies are not difficult for Apple, but the worst thing is that the patent barrier can not surround you.

The Côte d'Azur not only has a multi-touch patent, but dozens of related patents that are urgently needed for the iPhone.

In a way, without the patent license of the Cote d'Azur, the iPhone is basically stillborn.

Unless you find another way.

But patents such as the most perfect technology and industrial design are already in the hands of the Cote d'Azur, and if these are abandoned, Joe Gang firmly believes that the iPhone will face the same defeat as Rockr.

Because of this, there is a scene where I have to come to the door to find the Côte d'Azur company.

Without him, Qiao's gang leader intends to get patent authorization on this trip.

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