Google provided a look inside its data center operations at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday in Mountain View, Calif. The presentations included a video tour of a Google data...
Google provided a look inside its data center operations at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday in Mountain View, Calif. The presentations included a video tour of a Google data center, which showcased the companys use of shipping containers to store servers and storage. Each of these 40-foot data center containers can house up to 1,160 servers, and Google has been using them since it began building its own facilities in 2005. The company will post complete videos from the event next week. See DataCenterKnowledge.com for more coverage.
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I don't really believe what I'm seeing. It's not elegant, it's not minimalist, it's not googly. They only deployed one container of this crap for film.
If you're deploying 100k identical servers per quarter it would make more sense to put a $2 per unit 48V-12/5V buck converter on the board, and make the rectifier redundant at the rack or container level. It's more compact, it's more reliable and it's lower cost to deploy several big power supplies instead of hundreds of smaller ones.
They already make a shit load of money from there current services, and to start web hosting would mean spending tens of millions and not seeing a return for a very long time.
The web hosting service sector is already flooded with providers.
Well, back in 98 they asked for investors, funding, etc. That's how they do it. The first google server cost them about 4 thousand dollars. People saw potential and invested in it and that's how they got the money to do this.
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If you're deploying 100k identical servers per quarter it would make more sense to put a $2 per unit 48V-12/5V buck converter on the board, and make the rectifier redundant at the rack or container level. It's more compact, it's more reliable and it's lower cost to deploy several big power supplies instead of hundreds of smaller ones.
The web hosting service sector is already flooded with providers.