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Very few people have stepped inside Google’s data centers, and for good
reason: our first priority is the privacy and security of your data, and
we go to great lengths to protect it, keeping our sites under close
guard. While we’ve shared many of our
designs and best practices, and we’ve been
publishing our efficiency data since 2008, only a small set of employees have access to the server floor itself.
Today, for the first time, you can see inside our data centers and pay them a virtual visit. On
Where the Internet lives, our new site featuring beautiful photographs by
Connie Zhou, you’ll get a never-before-seen look at the technology, the people and the places that keep Google running.
The server floor in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Night falls over our Lenoir, North Carolina data center
In addition, you can now explore our Lenoir, NC data center at your own pace in Street View. Walk in the
front door, head up the stairs, turn right at the ping-pong table and head down the hall to the
data center floor. Or take a stroll around the
exterior
of the facility to see our energy-efficient cooling infrastructure. You
can also watch a video tour to learn more about what you're viewing in
Street View and see some of our equipment in action.
Finally, we invited author and
WIRED reporter
Steven Levy to talk to the architects of our infrastructure and get an unprecedented look at its inner workings. His
new story is
an exploration of the history and evolution of our infrastructure, with
a first-time-ever report from the floor of a Google data center.
Fourteen years ago, back when Google was a student research project,
Larry and Sergey powered their new search engine using a few cheap,
off-the-shelf servers stacked in
creative ways.
We’ve grown a bit since then, and we hope you enjoy this glimpse at
what we’ve built. In the coming days we’ll share a series of posts on
the
Google Green Blog that explore some of the photographs in more detail, so stay tuned for more!
Posted by Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure
