Behind the Scenes at a Google Data Center

This is the most revealing behind the scenes video I have seen of inside a Google data center. Beware do not watch this if you have seen the Matrix or Terminator movies in the last two weeks. You may end up moving to Mexico to prepare for when these computers become self aware and try to exterminate us...



WOW! Google says this data center has slots for over 45,000 servers in those 45 containers. Did you see in the video all the chillers and maze of water piping necessary in removing the tremendous amount of heat generated by the servers?

Two things to keep in mind:

• It always costs money to move water around.
• While those big chillers keep the AC costs down, they also evaporate/consume a lot of water. For a typical 15MW Data Center roughly 360,000 gallons per day can be used.

This next video detail's Google's Water Treatment Plant at its new data center in Belgium, which is located next to an industrial canal.

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"I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen." 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)