Google Inc has bought 30 acres (121,400 sq. meters) of land from the Port Authority of The Dalles, Oregon, for a new technology infrastructure facility, the Web's No 1 search engine said on Thursday. Google, based in Mountain View, California, is expected to pay $1.87 million for the parcel of industrial-zoned land 85 miles (136 kilometers) east of Portland, with an option to buy three other area sites. The new facility would be Google's second operations outpost in the Pacific Northwest.

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