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We saw the insides of one of Google’s once-secretive data centres for the first time last month. But now, as part of Google’s new ‘Where the internet lives’, big G has thrown open the doors to eight of its back-end buildings across the globe, including the myriad of multi-coloured guts that make up Google’s nerve centre. This is the technicoloured dreamland where your data is stored, people.
From Finland to North Carolina, Google’s interconnected brain sprawls literally miles of server rooms, all blinking away in their colourful glory. Three billion searches a day are handled by this little lot, plus all the action on YouTube, Gmail, Google+, and the plethora of other services on offer from Mountain View.
There are some really cool, wallpaper-worthy images in the gallery documenting this little lot, so it’s well worth giving it a perusal: [Google]
Looks like the corridors of a Romulan Warbird or the Reman Scimitar.
Interesting…
i thought Borg as well..
PS: The Middle image of all the pipework looks like the Engineering deck of the new enterprise in Star Trek (2009).
Or a Borg cube
The cabling certainly does reflect the Borg.
The outside looks like your average office, but the inside really is fascinating.
But why is it spewing white smoke? Are the servers actually running on forced convection water coolers?
They explained the cooling in the video they did, yes they take in water and then once it has warmed up they throw it out.
Google just elected a new pope.
Ah, Eurotrip. That was a good movie.
my server room looks nothing like that… there are cables everywhere… changes of clothes and deoderant…… although i would guess google has a much much larger than my company
In the early days Google’s servers were all bare boards with as many drives plugged in as they could take, crammed into racks with tiny spaces between them in an attempt to maximise sever power. I imagine the hardware people now have a much easier life.