Google has announced a 40-year lease of 42.2 acres at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. The new research and development campus will give Google room for up to 1.2 million sq ft of office space for $3.66 million per year.
A press release announcing the deal also touts typical Google perks: "dining, sports, fitness, child care, conference and parking facilities for its employees, as well as recreation and parking facilities and infrastructure improvements for NASA's use.
The lease, which can be extended out to 90-years, is part of a series of joint projects between NASA and Google including Google Moon and -- perhaps more notoriously -- Moffett Field parking rights for Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin's party plane.
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I'd like my government representatives to explain why Google gets some sweetheart deal like this, on an ongoing basis, while at the same time they refuse to honor their own ToS, a Senator's request, and the complaints of many, many citizens about their hosting of terrorist recruitment propaganda displaying US bodies and jihadi carnage. Google is an anti-US company that hypocritically censors for the Chinese but claims free speech allows it to post anti_US hate. Google should be tried for sedition in a US court for being in violation of Executive Orders prohibiting US corporations from supporting defined terrorist organizations. Search google for "youtube terrorist support" for more information.
Want to see some graphic beheadins (if you can stomach such vile stuff) then go to youtube and you can easily see them. Google refuses to remove these videos, this is well documented.
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