Inside a Google data center


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16 Comments

  1. Anonymous January 14, 2021 at 14:11

    4.5

  2. Garand69 January 14, 2021 at 14:17

    Purely for informational purposes…. ;)

  3. TINVOWOOT January 14, 2021 at 14:21

    The zany lady in the rainbow helicopter cap just erased you from the internet, then rode off on a scooter to cuddle with her dog in the breakroom.

  4. Brewer55 January 14, 2021 at 14:30

    When you work with all the alphabet agencies and provide them with the “secure data” of its customers, you have a never ending and ever expanding pocket book to have the best of everything.

  5. wwes January 14, 2021 at 14:33

    There is one located in Lenoir NC at
    35.89366885463871, -81.54604720291228
    Apple also has one at
    35.58813357079483, -81.25696914496339
    And Facebook at
    35.31693366891828, -81.82527824603655
    Being that there are so many fellow North Carolinians on here, I figured folks might like to know the locations of some of the beautiful tourist attractions that these tech giants have here.

    • Tommy boy January 14, 2021 at 15:32

      https://www.datacenters.com/providers
      Addresses and pics. Also, https://www.openstreetmap.org/ is great for locating things.

    • ÜPCG May 29, 2021 at 16:54

      My wife worked across the street at Grand Manor Furniture in Lenoir back in the day. Google was starting to build the DC as she was leaving.
      Last year we went down there for our anniversary. She was dumbstruck how much the town had changed (she left in the early 2010’s) and not for the better.
      The receptionist at the hotel we stayed at, as our original accommodations weren’t up to snuff, told me before she got out of the car that Caldwell County had tripled in population; she also said that people from CA, NY, and NJ were coming in and changing the town.
      My wife wanted me to point out that those people from NY, CA, and NJ brought a child/young women sex trafficking ring with them (the two Walmarts in Lenoir and Granite Falls being their prime pickup locations), among the other enrichment.
      Closer to home, I’ve seen my hometown which is part of a (now) major metropolitan area being destroyed by emigration from blue land as well as immigration from SE Asia, the Middle East, and south of the border.

  6. vyt1az January 14, 2021 at 15:22

    I love informative fun. All that fun power and cooling.
    Homedepot and Walmart run on all that fun power and cooling coming from those fun Google Cloud datacenters.
    They’re all having fun right now.

  7. Roave January 14, 2021 at 17:26

    ‘ I’m Joe Kava ( and I shave my big stiff ‘stache because ) I’m actually Stalin’s long lost nephew…’ , ‘ and the tents you see outside are a subtle reminder that the gulags are just a click away…’.
    We’ve got two of them sites south of our Capitol – in the socialist part of the country… .

  8. FlyBy January 14, 2021 at 18:05

    I wonder if their six layers of security include SAMs and AAA? Oh how I’d love to make a bombing run on that facility.

  9. BravoCharlie January 14, 2021 at 18:17

    Iron mountain has and underground data center in Boyers, Pennsylvania. Very secure location, but there is only one substation that feeds it. The redundant generators underground have a few days of fuel stored. They would have to be resupplied by truck on a little country road.

  10. Jack January 14, 2021 at 18:37

    Huh.
    Aint it grand

  11. Suburban Dude January 14, 2021 at 21:38

    Guess what happens in a DC when there is a fire of some kind, full suppressive measure are taken, ask me how i know…
    i was working on a DC project in Rock Vegas, SC, racking and stacking servers, hubs, routers and all manner of shit for a large national retail chain, to make it work when a technician for the fire suppression company accidentally triggers a discharge on one of the many 1000pd tanks that supported the system.
    that tank cost 25k to recharge i heard..tech was fired on the spot….
    This gas sucks the oxygen out of the dc, and is hazardous to people, requires FULL and total DC evac, right fucking now..
    DC fires go vastly under reported for a variety of reasons, but guess what else happens?
    Complete shutdown of ALL devices…
    Fire department has to be called, has to clear dc, etc..
    Do the math on a single hosted server that is housing a law firms database.
    20 attorneys @ 500hr = 10k per hour x 8 hours = 80k per day
    20 assistants at 150 hr = 3k hour x 8 = 24k per day
    total for a single day for a simple hosted client = 104k…
    imagine if you will, a situation where a dc suffers major power/internet outages and fire bombing…..
    most are in remote areas too…
    jus sayin….

  12. Chris January 15, 2021 at 04:06

    The average cost of a data center outage PER MINUTE back in 2016 was $8,851. (The outage costs increase every year.)
    That’s half a million for 1 hr of downtime, a million for 2 hrs, & $12 million for 24hrs.
    Imagine if it never comes back online…
    Imagine if it were multiple data centers…
    The modern world is soooo fragile.
    People underestimate how much money companies like amazon, facebook, microsoft, & google make from the data centers they own & the cloud hosting portion of their business. It’s ENORMOUS. They’re all massive players in that sector. Not to mention every large company uses the servers in those data centers for their ebusiness & lots of other stuff. And all that information they collect on people & sell to other companies & advertisers, that multi-billion dollar a year business? Yep, that too. Who is it that’s funding all this tyranny & conflict directed against the American people again? Nah, it’s not important to think about anything like that right now.
    It’s also not important to notice that the cooling tanks & such needed to keep all that hot equipment running looked to be outside in a pretty open & light security environment. I’m sure it’ll be fine. It’s not like all these companies that depend on that equipment & infrastructure have been up to anything nefarious or poking the bear or anything like that. It’s not like they’re helping to fund a war against us, meddling in elections, supporting coups, sending good jobs overseas, importing foreign workers for the jobs they can’t send overseas, & hollowing out our communities & our economy or anything. Right?

  13. A Girl Who Ponders January 27, 2021 at 04:30

    I wonder how much they pay their security guys, and how much it would cost to convince them all to call off sick for one day.

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