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Photo Tour of Google's Data Centers

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @02:31AM from the server-pr0n dept.

For anyone curious about how Google's data centers look on the insidie, NMajik writes with word that Google published a photo tour of their secretive data centers. They look like the future, with a soft blue glow and color-coordinated cooling pipes.

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Re:And it's all for ads by TomNext70 · 2012-10-17 02:44 · Score: 4, Informative

How did that work out for them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil
Re:You're all rick rolled now! by Dupple · 2012-10-17 02:44 · Score: 5, Funny

My god! It actually is a series of tubes!
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/tech/8

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Some background information in Wired article by concealment · 2012-10-17 03:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

Journalist Stephen Levy goes into the data center itself:
"Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center"
Pretty fascinating stuff. I didn't expect the whole thing to be run on C-64s.
Storm Trooper by ewrong · 2012-10-17 03:44 · Score: 4, Funny

+1 http://bit.ly/RFEHRk
Terrible inteface by hackertourist · 2012-10-17 03:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

The photo tour has one of the worst interfaces I've seen for viewing photos. Hiding half of the photo caption by default? Who comes up with this idiocy?
One small redeeming feature is that they haven't hijacked the right-click with a bloody Lightbox script.