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| Mayes County, Okla. — A rare look behind the server aisle. Here hundreds
of fans funnel hot air from the server racks into a cooling unit to be
recirculated. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting
from the front of the servers. — Time.com |
Google, Inc. was
originally an Internet Search company founded in 1998 by Standford
grad's Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It has grown exponentially since its
inception — went public in 2004 and is currently world renown —
providing various Internet-related products & services –including
internet search, cloud computing, media platforms, software &
advertising technologies. Google currently generates more than $50
billion dollars in annual revenue.
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| Council Bluffs, Iowa — This massive antenna receives signals for the
Access Services unit which brings fiber optics to residential homes all
over the globe. These antennas are also the primary signal source for
hundreds of TV channels that make up Google Fiber's TV service — Time.com |
While
many may think of Google as a futuristic, by-product of Silicon Valley —
their lighting-fast browsers and speed-of-light services aren't solely run via
satellite equipments w/ endless fiber optic connections & infinite wireless capabilities. It is their massive
data centers that are stuff of legend...monolithical storage centers of epic proportions.
The
following is an unprecedented look inside some of Google's international data
centers that would make Sci-Fi architects George Lucas & Steven Spielberg proud:
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| Council Bluffs, Iowa — Hovering above the floor in Council Bluffs, Iowa,
the scale of the data center begins to take shape. Huge steel beams
both support the structure and help distribute power — Time.com |
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Berkeley
County, S.C. — This is a closer view of the backup tapes in the tape
library. Each tape has a unique barcode so Google's robotic system can
locate the right one — Time.com
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St. Ghislain, Belgium — A sunset illuminates water storage tanks and cooling towers — Time.com
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| Douglas County, Ga. — These colorful pipes send and receive water for
cooling the facility. Also pictured is a G-Bike, the vehicle of choice
for team members to get around outside data centers — Time.com |
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| Douglas County, Ga. — Pipes like these are ready with highly-pressurized
water in case of a fire. This water, in particular, is cleaned and
filtered so if used, it will not contaminate the facility — Time.com |
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| Hamina, Finland — Server floors like these require massive space and efficient power to run the full family of Google products for the world. Here in Hamina, Finland, Google chose to renovate an old paper mill to take advantage of the building's infrastructure as well as its proximity to the Gulf of Finland's cooling waters — Time.com |
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| Douglas County, Ga. — Blue LEDs on this row of servers show if everything is running smoothly — Time.com |
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