YouTube tour reveals Google data center designs

Judging by the heavy interest in last week's look at Google's previously secret server and data center design , I thought it would be useful to note that Google has now put much of the information on YouTube. The disclosures came at a Google-sponsored conference on data center efficiency, which boils down to getting the most computing done with the least electrical power. The idea is core to Google's operations: the company operates at tremendous scale, tries to minimize its harm to the environment, and has a strong financial incentive to keep its costs low. There are a number of videos from the conference online, starting with the tour of a Google data center . Google's servers, which the company itself designs, are packed 1,160 at a time into shipping containers that form a basic, modular unit of computing. Also worth a look is the tour of Google's water treatment facility . Google uses water to cool the hot air the servers produce. Most Google data centers use chillers to cool the ... (link)