[TriLUG] A rare look inside a Google Datacenter

[Michael Rothwell]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:

> In case you missed the media coverage this morning... Google did
> something very unusual today.  They invited Steven Levy (author of "In
> The Plex") and CBS This Morning to the Lenoir Datacenter, and gave
> them a tour of the server floor.  They also published photos of the
> server floor, video off the offices, and Street View imagery that
> allows you to walk right onto the datacenter floor.
>
> Here are some handy links if you want to explore...
>
> Steven Levy's article in Wired:
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/
>
> Google's official blog post:
>
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-data-centers-inside-look.html
>
> Video about the Street View imagery, and showing some more of the office
> space:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0


You can see Aaron walking by, and Joel and me in the background, starting
at about 19 seconds:
http://youtu.be/avP5d16wEp0?t=19s


>
>
> The front door in Street View:
> http://goo.gl/maps/lqWuN
>
> The CBS This Morning clip:
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57533989/behind-the-cloud-a-tour-of-googles-secretive-data-facilities/?tag=showDoorFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule
>
> Beautiful shot of the datacenter (and the mountains, and the moon...) at
> night:
> http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/places/9
>
> Some of the staff of the datacenter, as the Street View car drove by
> (including Joel Ebel, former TriLUG Steering Committee member):
> http://goo.gl/maps/gefI8
>
> In case you're trying to identify SRE's desks, they are covered with
> large leaves from Ikea, and sport a brightly-colored parrot, but you
> can only see the tops of them for the Bloxes wall.  Thus, you can't
> tell it from the video or Street View, but SRE still has a couple
> empty desks.  If the environment looks like something you'd enjoy, as
> always, feel free to send me a resume.  :)  Only mine and Joel's
> shared standing desk is visible from the Street View imagery:
> http://goo.gl/maps/VKys9
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
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