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Google-plex moves toward world domination

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

If you’re a computer nerd — or even just interested in the guts of what Google does and how it does it — there’s a great story in the New York Times today about the new server farms the search engine company is constructing on the shores of the Columbi ... Continue reading »

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  • thatedeguy

    3 years ago

    Matt, it's Dalles, not Dulles.
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  • Mathew Ingram

    3 years ago

    Thanks, edeguy -- already fixed. I guess I was just a little too eager to make that joke about "The Dullest" :-)
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  • Josh

    3 years ago

    Damn. I will never complain about my energy bill again. It's a good thing they aren't building those farms here in Ontario. Sounds like Google alone would be enough to put us in perpetual brownouts.

    Seriously though, I wonder how much longer this type of growth will continue. They could be at 5 million servers by the end of the decade.
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  • Mathew Ingram

    3 years ago

    A good point, Josh. I wonder if in the future, Google will favour areas that have cheap hydroelectricity -- like Quebec perhaps.
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  • Vanessa Williams

    3 years ago

    According to Jonathan Schwartz (Sun's new CEO):

    "talk to some web 2.0 startups, you'll hear many say their second biggest operating expense, after salaries, is electricity"

    http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry...

    Something has got to give, and Google's dreams of storing all the information in the world on their own servers is unrealistic (not to mention "gevil").
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