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Inside A Google Data Center
- By: Rich Miller
  April 2nd, 2009
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Google will soon be publishing videos of many of the sessions at its Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday in Mountain View, Calif. In the meantime, here’s a sneak preview with outtakes from the video tour of a Google data center, which showcased the company’s 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 built this facility in late 2005. The summit was a Google event for industry engineers and executives to discuss innovations to improve data center efficiency. this video runs about 5 minutes, 45 seconds.

When Google publishes the full videos of sessions from the event, including additional video and technical details of the data center tour, we’ll post the information here. To get our latest news about Google and the data center industry, subscribe to our daily e-mail update or our RSS feed.

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