Google has broken ground at the construction site of a future data center in Taiwan.

The project is part of the company’s ongoing infrastructure expansion in Asia, which so far also includes a data center in Singapore, as well as one in Hong Kong. Google broke ground at both sites in December 2011.

The company is investing more than US$900m into its Asian expansion. On its website, it said it needed to prepare for the rate of growth in internet use in the region.

"More new Internet users are coming online everyday here in Asia than anywhere else in the world," Google’s website read. "They are looking for information and entertainment, new business opportunities and better ways to connect with friends and family."

Google expects to bring all three Asian data centers online in 2013.

The company bought 15 hectares of land for the data center in Changhua County, Taiwan, in September 2011. Its long-term investment in the facility is estimated to exceed $300m. Each of the other two projects in Asia is expected to cost about the same.

The Taiwan data center will be the first in Google’s fleet to use nighttime cooling and a thermal energy storage system.

Large quantities of water will be cooled at night, when the outside air temperatures are low and more power is available on the grid, a Google spokesperson explained to The Next Web. The water will be stored in insulated tanks and distributed through the data center’s cooling system during the day.