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Google's Secretive Data Center
valdean wrote in with a NYTimes article about Google which says "On the banks of the windswept Columbia River [in Oregon], Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky...' What's the goal of this new complex? Expanding Google's raw computer power. It's one more piece in the Googleplex, the massive global computer network that is estimated to span 25 locations and 450,000 servers.'
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
*bows*
The opposite of progress is congress
> What's the goal of this new complex?
Is it world domination? Or is it something even more evil? Will Google dethrone Microsoft?? Will Batman & Robin Save The Day... To find out, watch the next expisode
Vulturo, Prince Of Darkness
to calculate Sergei's Income Tax.
That's nothing compared to Microsoft's hidden moonbase.
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And I'll probably be killed for writing it... but Google has gained sentience. It is building this data center for itself, by itself. It needs a bigger "brain" and it's doing what it has to. The reason no one's talking? Google has enslaved the people building it and is holding their families hostage.
Look, it's not too late yet... Google hasn't achieved full power and it's still limited by the physical world constraints. But once this is built, it's all over for us. We must stop it now, before
... is that Google is the private branch of NSA. You took the "No evil" bite, and now it's too late. The Complex is already in place, and we are on the verge of celebrating the birth of AI. As for who will strike first, we don't know; but we do know it will be us that scorge the skies when the times come to fight the Google Machine.
The best guess is that Google now has more than 450,000 servers spread over at least 25 locations around the world.
... and I thought the 3 at my parent's house and 2 in my dormroom were quite impressive :-(
Huh
[DISSOLVE TO:
FIRE. SLOW, BOILING, ENORMOUS. FILLING FRAME.
VOICE (Mrs Mary Maxwell Gates)]
Googleplex, the computer which controlled the machines,
sent two Googlenators back through time. Their
mission: to destroy the leader of the human
Resistance... Bill Gates. My son...
Dadadadaa..dadadada..dadadada..
[CUT FADE OUT]
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
I'll bite - it's probably a massive array of computing power dedicated to finding out if Google really has a second marketable product beyond AdWords.
They also forgot to mention that both buildings have acrylic ceilings, and every light in the complex is neon red. Blue flames are also supposed to be on the sides of the buildings later this year.
I can only hope that Google hires some gymnastic girls in tights to defend their site. I also look forward to Bill Gates sitting in a big chair petting his white cat giving orders for his commandos to attack it.
Just think, all that hardware and $ just to store millions of "Me too!" replies off of the web.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
They must be getting ready to run Vista.
We are the people our parents warned us about.
hold the next football world cup in half as much time as it takes today
Google have quite a way to catch up, but they're determined to get to the top of the SETI@Home leaderboard by the end of the year.
This are just two swimming pools and dormitories that are being build for the GoogleRestPlex program.
The GoogleRestPlex program is all about taking care of ex-employees - Google is always ahead and this is the next generation of the retirements homes. Big cooling house is because of 10.000 bodies of retired employees (yes, that is the capacity of one GoogleRestPlex complex) produce lot of heat!
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
Oh, really? REALLY?? What about all the small-town "mom-and-pop" datacenters they'll be putting out of business with these "data supercenters", huh?!?! You can bet that once all their local competition is gone those "low, low prices" on queries are gonna skyrocket !! And of course they're chanting that supposedly soothing mantra of "there's plenty of local market share for everyone; specialty and niche datacenters will always have a place...blah, blah, yadda, yadda..." but DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!!
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And, does it work?
We're all born with nothing.
If you die in debt, you're ahead.
If you kids don't wise up . . . . . you'll end up working in a Googleplex . . . . . DOWN . .BY THE RIVER !"
RIP Chris Farley
Google will use the computer power to calculate how to get programs out of beta.
> will the Yahoo and Microsoft data centers show up on Google Earth?
:)
Yup. Probably with a big red crosshair superimposed
I think the real question is, will the MS and Yahoo! datacenters divert the river, cutting the GooglePlex's cooling capacity before the GooglePlex uses its weather control system to create a pair of very powerful, very focused electrical storms 130 miles upstream, in a titanic clash that will determine the fate of the entire...
Oops, you weren't supposed to know about the weather control device, which was created at the castle of AAAAAaaaaaauuughhh......
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After seven and a half million years^W^W^W 0.07 seconds of pondering the question:
And its name is Calculator! Well, who had thought that.