[TriLUG] A rare look inside a Google Datacenter

[Aaron Joyner]

In case you missed the media coverage this morning... Google did
something very unusual today.  They invited Steven Levy (author of "In
The Plex") and CBS This Morning to the Lenoir Datacenter, and gave
them a tour of the server floor.  They also published photos of the
server floor, video off the offices, and Street View imagery that
allows you to walk right onto the datacenter floor.

Here are some handy links if you want to explore...

Steven Levy's article in Wired:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/

Google's official blog post:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-data-centers-inside-look.html

Video about the Street View imagery, and showing some more of the office space:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0

The front door in Street View:
http://goo.gl/maps/lqWuN

The CBS This Morning clip:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57533989/behind-the-cloud-a-tour-of-googles-secretive-data-facilities/?tag=showDoorFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule

Beautiful shot of the datacenter (and the mountains, and the moon...) at night:
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/places/9

Some of the staff of the datacenter, as the Street View car drove by
(including Joel Ebel, former TriLUG Steering Committee member):
http://goo.gl/maps/gefI8

In case you're trying to identify SRE's desks, they are covered with
large leaves from Ikea, and sport a brightly-colored parrot, but you
can only see the tops of them for the Bloxes wall.  Thus, you can't
tell it from the video or Street View, but SRE still has a couple
empty desks.  If the environment looks like something you'd enjoy, as
always, feel free to send me a resume.  :)  Only mine and Joel's
shared standing desk is visible from the Street View imagery:
http://goo.gl/maps/VKys9

Aaron S. Joyner