A rare inside look at Google’s top-secret data centers
With all the talk about cloud computing, it’s easy to forget that the 20 billion pages Google indexes each day live somewhere—not in the sky, but in earthbound data centers around the world. Learn how we’ve found innovative ways to make our data centers incredibly energy efficient and the great lengths our site reliability engineers (SREs) go to ensure your favorite Google products and YouTube videos are always available.
Get an inside look at our data centers at Wired.com
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