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Geek Culture / Astonishing look inside Googles Data Buildings

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 25th Oct 2012 15:28
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Quote: "See where the Internet lives. Come inside"


Check out these photos of where Google stores its information; it really does makes you think.

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Posted: 25th Oct 2012 15:41
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skynet!!!
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Posted: 25th Oct 2012 15:45 Edited at: 25th Oct 2012 15:46
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Quote: "Check out these photos of where Google stores its information; it really does makes you think."


indeed...

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Posted: 25th Oct 2012 16:01
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Click the picture... lol...

@ Chris - Thanks for sharing that, I spent a good hour with my mouth hanging open, dribbling onto my keyboard.

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Posted: 25th Oct 2012 16:05
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Quote: "Posted: 25th Oct 2012 07:28"


Quote: "Posted: 25th Oct 2012 08:01"


Quote: "I spent a good hour"





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Posted: 25th Oct 2012 16:10 Edited at: 25th Oct 2012 17:11
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It felt like an hour. Besides, how do you know I wasn't sitting at my computer desk while flying around a black hole at the speed of light for half an hour while looking at these pictures?

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Sergey K
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Posted: 25th Oct 2012 23:47
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google is awesome

it will never fall apart cuz of his databases

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 26th Oct 2012 01:26
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I remember when the internet became big, google was that simple looking no-nonsense search engined I would use because the others where cluttered with adverts; now google is everywhere.

Facebook aswell, I remember when I had a Facebook account, and all my friends did not even know it existed, "what's a face book?" - Now my family complains to me that I don't use it. (I cannot be asked with social network sites TBH)

Every big company started with something small...

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Posted: 26th Oct 2012 01:41
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It looks like a photoshop job that photo...

They've only got half of it unless they're hiding the side with the other pictures on...

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Posted: 26th Oct 2012 02:03
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Quote: "It looks like a photoshop job that photo.."




Ok, not quite the emoticon I'm looking for.

Now, that you mention it; the photo looks far too symmetrical; the lighting and size of the tile grouting is way to identical on either side. [How dare they!!]

However, the other photos are more convincing. They probably touched this one up to look good.

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Posted: 26th Oct 2012 02:26 Edited at: 26th Oct 2012 02:27
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It definitely looks mirrored. Look at the closest set of racks -- there are labels of some kind on them. On the left side, the letters are backward.


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Posted: 26th Oct 2012 15:27 Edited at: 26th Oct 2012 15:32
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That would be because it is! There's a thread on Reddit somewhere where they noticed the labels on the left are mirrored :p Let me find it a sec...

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Found it. Also, the floor is a giveaway as it is ever so slightly concave. I wonder how much energy they would save if they didn't have so many LEDs? xD

Quote: "Google interviewed the photographer and she mentions doing post processing in order to get symmetry in her photos. In another photo there is a gap and she fills it in with servers from the other side. So it isn't really a photoshop, its just the way she wanted it to turn out. That still really is Google's datacenter, with a few tweaks. In that picture I bet she just wanted both sides to be symmetric, so instead of showing two different server stacks she just put the same one. Here is a link, she mentions it in the interview and in the photo captions, https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550/posts/Gk8ScjPX23n"




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Posted: 30th Oct 2012 03:38
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Actually, all of those LED's together likely don't use too much. Say each one of those draws 10-15 milliamps, and somewhere around 15 LEDs for each of those server columns if I counter correctly, that's about 150-200 or so milliamps, and at a 2 or so voltage drop, that's about 0.3 watts if I did my math correctly.

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0.3 * 60,000 = 18,000W on LEDs (Might be overestimating the amount of server racks Google have though)


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Posted: 31st Oct 2012 01:07
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Huh...

... I expected it to be bigger.

You disappoint me, Google!


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Posted: 31st Oct 2012 01:23
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Nah that was .3 watts for each one of those stacks of servers. Still plenty o watts for the whole thing!

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It's been speculated that google has 900,000 servers, so I stand by my estimate.


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Posted: 31st Oct 2012 06:52
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That's a lot of wattage!

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