[LINK] Wired article: inside Google's data centers

[Robin Whittle]

There's an article by Steven Levy, with photos:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/all/

and a limited streetview view inside the Lenoir, North Carolina datacenter:

  http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/streetview

They use chilled water to cool the hot air immediately it exits the
server racks.  They use evaporative cooling, or an external source of
cool water.

There's a video showing a tape backup system and a failed hard drive
crusher:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0

>From April 2009, some information on the servers, with motherboards made
by Gigabyte, with integral UPS power supply and dual RAID1 Hitachi hard
drives:

  http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html


  - Robin