[TriLUG] A rare look inside a Google Datacenter

Mark Fowle mfowle at adeliesystems.com
Wed Oct 17 11:27:55 EDT 2012


Celebrities now...   autographs?? :-)


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Michael Rothwell <michael at rothwell.us>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
> You can see Aaron walking by, and Joel and me in the background, starting
> at about 19 seconds:
> http://youtu.be/avP5d16wEp0?t=19s
>
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
>



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