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Google's Data Center secrets revealed!
engadget.com - 4/2/2009
Google's Data Center secrets revealed!
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After years of secrecy (maybe because they thought no one was interested), Google held its "Data Center Efficiency Summit" yesterday, where the company showed off one of its DCs and custom web servers -- all in a bid to evangelize for energy efficiency. The green angle means that everything ...

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Google's Web Servers, Revealed
Tech Blog — ... Google aims for energy efficiency with their web servers, that's why "everything has been planned for optimum power use, from the 1AAA shipping containers (sporting over a thousand servers each) that make up the core of its operations, to the servers themselves." Video after the break. This design is said to boast a staggering 99.9 percent energy efficiency, as opposed to a standard centralized UPS setup which at best would only score 95 percent. [via Engadget]

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