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A Look At Google's Newest Data Center
miller60 writes "Google doesn't allow the public inside its secret data centers. But a recent groundbreaking event at the company's new South Carolina data center provided glimpses of the exterior of the facility, which shows a design that has evolved since Google's Oregon data center made front page news. A new feature: an open, lighted area resembling a parking deck (containers?). Still missing: moats filled with sharks with friggin' laser beams on their head."
Surely he's suffered enough already
Question1: Do laser beams work underwater?
Question2: Assuming the affirmative to question one, how good is your average shark at aiming them?
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Am I the only one that finds it depressing that it is an anonymous grey building. Something like a bond-villain's hideout in a volcano would be more appropriate for one of the world's information super hubs.
Pictures of a big warehouse-like building! Amazing! Why, I've never seen one! Looks like a giant ... uhhhhhh.... box! w00t! Those pics are just sooo 1337!
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How long do you suppose you have to build data centers before Google hires you and tells you to go nuts? That's amazing, and I'd love to just walk around in it asking the guy questions who designed it.
I can't imagine how much electrical engineering, physics, and IT years of experience were required to put that thing together.
Anyone get to work in something approaching this level?
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aslong as you can put the main unit in a waterproof container, i dont see why not, but the water will diffuse the light more rapidly than air, especially if the sharks kick up a load of silt in their frenzy, so the range may be limited if the sharks are bad at aiming, they will just burn the skin, rather than focusing on one spot to burn a hole, but it may infact be preferable for the sharks to have their dinner 'fried off' rather than vapourised
Here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1669+Garrott+Avenue,Goose+Creek,+South+Carolina&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.713406,92.8125&ie=UTF8&ll=33.078849,-80.039606&spn=0.022691,0.045319&t=h&z=15&g=1669+Garrott+Avenue,Goose+Creek,+South+Carolina&iwloc=cent
And how much foil do you have to wear on your head to kiss these friends?
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My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Obviously datacenterknowledge.com isn't hosted in a very robust data center...
Yes laser works underwater, Otters have better aim though, they also easily dodge lasers so expect no Otter battles..
Yep, me. I actually work in the SC location. I was hired after submitting my resume to www.google.com/jobs. Cheers. :)
I think in actual operation the sharks would poke their
head out of the water (like Flipper the dolphin) to fire
the laser. I'm pretty sure the sharks would require special
goggles to aim accurately in the air.
Having worked in a few data centers over the course of my life... They are continuing the long-standing tradition of nondescript concrete/cinder block buildings that have hosted data centers for decades.
Nobody, including Google, wants to advertise their data centers- they want them to look like ordinary warehouses or industrial buildings.
It's pretty much required from a security standpoint, and is why Google is very secretive of its data center locations. You might even have a Google data center in the airport industrial park right down the street.
Would you really expect a big steel and glass architectural wonder with "Google" emblazoned all over it? I would expect nothing more or less from a Google data center than a big ugly concrete box in an industrial park. They (big ugly concrete boxes) are easy to guard and air condition, and don't require a receptionist or PR staff.