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Google's Secretive Data Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-way-more-than-twelve-cpus dept.

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.'

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  1. Start compiracy theories here... by alexhs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "On the banks of the windswept Columbia River [in Oregon], NSA 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 NSA's raw computer power. It's one more piece in the NSAplex, the massive global computer network that is estimated to span 25 locations and 450,000 servers.'

    Makes sense to me... Is "Google" the friendly name of "NSA" ? :)

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    1. Re:Start compiracy theories here... by GogglesPisano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      (Puts on tinfoil hat) In 1972, the CIA used Howard Hughes (at the time, one of the richest men in the world) to provide a plausible cover story for an attempt to recover a sunken Soviet submarine. Given the current administration's tendency to monitor it's citizen's activities, and Google's tendency to cooperate with totalitarian regimes, perhaps history is repeating itself...?

    2. Re:Start compiracy theories here... by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "On the banks of the windswept Columbia River [in Oregon], Bob Dole 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 Bob Dole's raw computer power. It's one more piece in the Bob Doleplex, the massive global computer network that is estimated to span 25 locations and 450,000 servers."

      This makes even more sense!

  2. Re:This message will probably be erased by Richy_T · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    As long as it's not Demon Seed. Would bring a whole new meaning to the term "Being Googled".

    Rich

  3. Obligatory Star Trek reference by Intricated · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds like Google is an emerging lifeform.

  4. Re:May I be the first to say... by cno3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *bows*

    Just missed!

    *picks up another tomato*

  5. Re:Offtopic by choice by BigCheese · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I may be an area thing. T-Mobile works great here in Kansas. Ironically enough, Sprint does not and I'm just a couple of miles from their main campus.

    I've had a lot of issues with Motorola phones in the past. To be fair they seem to be getting better. They got rid of that godawful 2 pronged plug and went to the small USB connector. That's the best idea I've seen in a long time.

    I may just change my sig. It was funny at the time.

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