Chapter 168 [Joe Gang Master is here]
"We strive to spend the $5.6 billion in the second half of 2007 to build three major data centers in Sucheng, Capital and Lincheng in China, just to use the $1 billion financing fund brought back this time, and the budget is just right." Luo Sheng began to make detailed decisions.
With the current domestic Internet infrastructure and user scale, it is completely enough to build these three major data centers to meet the current commercial scale. It is completely unnecessary to build too many data centers, and the construction cost and operation cost are really scary.
Once built, it means that hundreds of millions of dollars will burn steadily every year.
It has been two hours since the meeting lasted, but everyone is extremely excited because the blueprint drawn by Luo Sheng is so magnificent.
Luo Sheng continued: "Build nine large data centers overseas, one in Northern Virginia, one in Seattle, two in California Bay Area, one in Oregon, one in Osaka, one in Dublin, one in Frankfurt, and one in Sydney."
After hearing what he said, Erin immediately spoke: "The operating costs overseas are higher. Even if we build 9 data centers, plus three domestic... Isn't the 5.6 billion US dollars raised by IPO this time spent on building data centers?"
Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "The operating costs of overseas data centers are high, but the future revenue will be high. After all, developed countries and regions. The money raised this time is used to build our cloud computing service projects, otherwise the money will only be lying on the company's accounts as cash reserves. The company's current operating profit growth rate is greater than the growth of operating expenses, and its financial revenue and expenditure are very healthy."
Zhang Bowen said: "In the field of cloud computing services, our competitor is Amazon."
Upon hearing this, Luo Sheng shook his head: "Amazon is of course a major competitor, but in no time, even within half a year, more players will soon enter this field. Once technology giants such as Microsoft and Google realize the potential of cloud computing, they will definitely speed up their 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 North American market entry qualification. The United States will definitely block us. This requires preparation and formulate response strategies in advance."
Everyone couldn't help but nodded, and Amazon launched the elastic computing cloud service in March this year.
However, in the eyes of Bluestar Technology Group, Amazon is really a younger brother. Its core business is e-commerce. It can be seen from its market value that it is really a younger brother.
Amazon's current market value remains at around US$15 billion, while Bluestar Technology Group's current market value is already sprinting towards US$80 billion.
In terms of free cash flow, Bluestar Technology is now the best in Amazon.
Even if other companies are already secretly preparing, Luo Sheng is confident that he will gain more than 70% of the market share of the cloud computing service market in the future. There is not much trick here, it is just a very simple question of courage.
Luo Sheng dared to spend 50 billion US dollars this year to next year without hesitation, which is equivalent to Google's total revenue for the whole year last year.
Whether it is Google or Microsoft, other companies, they will definitely not dare to be as crazy as Luo Sheng.
Because cloud computing services are still a new and unfamiliar field at present, they have already had a conceptual prototype as early as the 1980s and 1990s. After so many years, there has not been much improvement. It is absolutely impossible to invest so crazy.
The scale of 500 billion US dollars was still in 2006. In any giant group company, with such a large astronomical figure, how could you dare to invest in a new field that is still unclear?
If the damage is gone, if a professional manager takes charge of the company, he will be out of bed and out of business tomorrow as soon as the financial report comes out.
They do not have the forward vision pattern of Luo Sheng’s foresight.
By the time he realized that Bluestar Technology had already stood out in the field of cloud computing services, Luo Sheng liked the feeling of being the one who was passing others on the streets and was the trendsetter of the times.
This life is all about waving!
This highly confidential internal meeting was almost over. Finally, Luo Sheng looked at Zhang Bowen and said, "Old Zhang, I will leave it to you about building a data center. You can talk to the people from ibm."
Zhang Bowen nodded: "I understand."
This matter is extremely important to Bluestar Technology Group. It is related to the trend of the times and the strategic vision layout that spans more than ten years. It is also the most important task of the group company this year. Luo Sheng naturally attaches great importance to it.
However, he still gave it to Zhang Bowen. First, he was relieved, and second, he was Lao Zhang's ability was unquestionable. Moreover, Luo Sheng had to take care of the Coast of Blue Company.
This matter is more important.
This year is 2006, a year that changed the world. Lens Semiconductor and Costa delta are blooming, and various core technologies are constantly making breakthroughs under the leadership of Luo Sheng.
The first real smartphone will be released this year soon and must be launched before Apple's iPhone.
The Coast of Blue Company, which has been immersed in for several years, will be shocked if it doesn’t sound.
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Zhang Bowen began to carry out the new tasks set by Luo Sheng for Bluestar Technology, and the group company unswervingly entered the field of cloud computing services.
This is a super large and super long-term project, surpassing any previous project of Bluestar Technology Group.
Zhang Bowen was actually very stressed, so he began to actively prepare for the next day and prepared to go to North America to meet with senior management of ibm before the end of the month to discuss business cooperation issues.
The heads of Bluestar Technology Group's other business segments also perform their own duties. More than 10,000 employees of this huge technology group perform their own duties, and major business segments are also progressing steadily, with users continuing to grow.
The company completed its spin-off and reorganization at the end of last year. The first heads of major subsidiaries have been in office for almost a quarter. So far, Luo Sheng is satisfied with their performance and no one has any major problems.
In the coming days, Luo Sheng’s main focus will undoubtedly be on the project plan of the Costa del Azure Company, and the preparation for this fall press conference will soon be on the agenda.
There is no other meaning to choose to release in September, because whether it is domestic or foreign, the peak sales season will be after September. For example, in China, October just took a short holiday, and other companies will basically choose this time node to release new products.
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Two days later, when Luo Sheng was focusing on the plan, he didn't know that a big figure in the technology industry came to China for the first time across the ocean from North America, and he came to him directly.
This person is Jobs, the founder of Apple.
That morning, the leader of the Qiao Gang who came on a special plane got off the plane in Shencheng, left the terminal, looked around and sighed: "I never thought that one day I would come to this mysterious Eastern country, and come here to ask for people to ensure that the new product was born smoothly."
This starts from last year in 2005. Another thing happened in the North American technology circle, which is related to Apple.
Last year, Apple made its first move into the mobile phone industry and launched a itunes mobile phone motorolarokr in collaboration with Motorola.
The mobile phone, Qiao Gangzhu, is also part of the 4ltr product line, which is a mobile phone razr released by Motorola in 2004.
The main model is v3.
In 2004, razr was arguably one of the best-selling phones in the world.
At that time, Apple, IPOD, had just dominated the digital music industry, and musispae had not yet been launched.
Apple saw the potential of Razr. Coincidentally, the head of Motorola airborne was exactly the old friend of Joe's gang leader.
After being "spoofed" by the old friend, Gang Qiao's gang leader got on the "pirate ship" of his old friend for many years.
The cooperation between Apple and Motorola is of course a natural result.
Rokr was born like this. This is Apple's first mobile phone, and it is considered a test work by Joe Gangzhu here.
However, after this phone was released, the media laughed at it. As expected, the rokr, which was launched last year, has been completely cold this year. It is really dead and can't die anymore.
In fact, before Rokr was launched, the leader of the Qiao Gang knew that this phone was going to be cool, so the iPhone was also secretly developing it at that time.
What just confused Gangmaster Qiao was that iPhone unexpectedly encountered big trouble.
Because many key patented technologies have been stuck, such as the extremely critical multi-touch screen patent that was applied for registration on March 22 last year.
After this investigation, I found that it was the mysterious Eastern power from the other side of the Pacific Ocean that had just joined the WTO for five years, which was the Costa del Sur company that had been established for only two or three years.
Many technologies are actually not difficult for Apple, but the worst thing is that patent barriers surround you.
Costa del Blue not only has mastered multi-touch screen patents, but also dozens of related patents are urgently needed by iPhones.
To a certain extent, if you do not get the patent authorization of the Costa ça, the iPhone will basically have to be still born.
Unless you find another way.
But the most perfect technology and industrial design patents are already mastered by the Costa del Azure. If you abandon these, the leader of the Qiao Gang firmly believes that the iPhone will face the same defeat as Rokr.
It is precisely because of this that the scene of having to come to the Coast of Blue now.
Nothing else, Gang Qiao intends to obtain a patent authorization for this trip.
Chapter completed!