Google’s infrastructure spending skyrockets to $2.3B in third quarter

Google spent nearly $2.29 billion on data centers, servers and other infrastructure during its fiscal third quarter, the company reported as part of its earnings statement. That’s up from $1.6 billion last quarter and $872 million in the third quarter of 2012. There’s really not much to say that hasn’t been said before: investing in servers, data centers, fiber optic cables, wind farms and whatever it takes to run a mobile-device business costs money.