Report: Google Uses About 900,000 Servers

[...] cooling systems. Centers house tens or hundreds of thousands of servers. Google has approximately 900k servers. The servers are small computers (think of a stripped-down motherboard from a laptop computer, plus [...]

Skaperen

Posted August 1st, 2011

Actually, it’s OK to run servers at a warmer temperature as long as your cooling environment is stable and does not fluctuate up and down a lot. You would get such fluctuations if you have a single refrigeration type cooling unit, since when it shuts off, it must stay off for usually a minimum of 15 minutes before starting, again. These fluctuations could push the temperature inside the server to higher peaks, so it would therefore need to run at a lower average temperature. With a stablized cooling system, you can run at a higher average more easily, and save money.

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ex-Googler

Posted August 1st, 2011

900,000 … really. Maybe in one corner of one data center there is only 900,000. Who ever is in charge of doing these surveys needs a new job…they are not even close.

Think about it for a minute:

Known Datacenters: Atlanta, North/South Carolinas, Chicago, California, Oregon, Taiwan, Ireland. The Oregon and Atlanta ones alone are 5 football fields in size.

Do you still believe there are only 900,000 servers running all of the Google infrastructure. I guess it is just more proof, that people will believe anything they read.

[...] from: Report: Google Uses About 900000 Servers – Data Center Knowledge [...]

hans

Posted August 1st, 2011

@ex-Googler:

You obviously never worked for Google because 900,000 is actually pretty accurate.

Robert Walker

Posted August 1st, 2011

I am glad that I do not have to pay this electric bill. I used to work in an old time date center with an IBM 370 and the whole room was run so cold to keep from burning up the equipment. Yes servers are smaller and the intel chips run a bit hotter. Almost a million servers is alot of power considering how powerful the computers are today and the memory they have for storing music, photograph’s and text.

[...] Câte servere folosește Google? Compania se ferește să facă astfel de informații publice, dar o nouă estimare făcută de cercetătorul Jonathan Koomey aproximează cifra de 900,000. [...]

[...] Documents, YouTube, and so on); some guesses put the figure at over 1 million.   According to a report at Data Center Knowledge, however, this estimate is probably a bit high, with the true number being [...]

[...] energy sources and green technology. It looks like that focus is paying off. [Jonathan Koomey via DataCenter Knowledge] Tagged:businesscomputingdata [...]

[...] energikilder og grøn teknologi. Det ser ud til, at fokus er pote. [ Jonathan Koomey via DataCenter Viden ] Du kan holde op med Kelly Hodgkins, forfatteren af dette indlæg, på Twitter , Google eller [...]

[...] ¿Cuantos servidores tiene Google? Segun un estudio son mas de 900,000. [...]

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[...] Juntos, eles utilizam 1,5% de toda eletricidade gerada no planeta.Com informações New York Times, DataCenter Knowledge, Jonathan G. Koomey Leia mais sobre: datacenter, eletricidade, Google, PesquisaGostou desse post? [...]

[...] Study estimates Google has around 900,000 servers [...]

[...] operativos y, colateralmente, para que calientes tu casa. Y relacionado, un estudio revela que Google maneja alrededor de novecientos mil servidores, y que su impacto energético es considerablemente menor de lo esperado debido tanto a la crisis [...]

[...] Industry pundits have somewhat revised that figure, from 1+ Million servers to 900,000 servers.http://www.datacenterknowledge.c…This answer .Please specify the necessary improvements. Edit Link Text Show answer summary [...]

[...] The pricing alone reveals a totally different view of the translation industry: what matters to Google is not the number of words, but instead the volume of the data to process. This is even more true if you consider that the language pair does not matter at all. In other words, Google is good at crunching enormous amounts of data, and machine translation is treated the same way. It is a computational problem which is best solved by throwing hardware at it, and Google has a bazillion of servers. [...]

[...] to Data Center Knowledge (via Gizmodo), of the energy use of data centers worldwide, Google uses less than 1 percent of the [...]

[...] of Chrome to test with. This shouldn’t be difficult. Google is said to have approximately 900,000 servers. Surely they can setup an archive with an explicit notice it’s an archive and user should [...]

[...] Google has a massive server network. It won’t say exactly how many servers it has, but some estimate the number at close to a million, which is about 2 percent of all the servers in the world. So is that a barrier to entry that no [...]

[...] respect to power that Google uses from which reverse estimate on the number of servers was derived: http://www.datacenterknowledge.c…Comment downvoted • 8:18amCannot add reply if you are logged out.8:18amFaisal Khan: “Here [...]

[...] many servers does Google have?Datacentre Knowledge recently noted that the latest estimate for the number of servers being used by Google has been revised downward [...]

Dan Mascola

Posted October 31st, 2011

Google has some great videos describing their energy management implementations. Check out this video of their airflow techniques:

http://www.dchuddle.com/2011/googles-data-center-energy-use/

[...] services.  Google doesn’t talk much about its data centers, but it’s estimated to have close to 1 million servers running in them, and using renewable energy is a big focus for [...]

[...] its alternative energy support to projects closer to home, at its various office buildings and 900,000 plus server farms. Thats hardly a very specific or ambitious roadmap, at least compared to the companys [...]

kingk

Posted February 8th, 2012

Wow, Google will need more and more servers in the near future..

[...] one saving grace about having massive buyers like Google, which has around a million servers, is that there is a lot of money to drive innovation. Google doesn’t just ask the question “Can [...]

Jim

Posted July 16th, 2012

> the Crappy Xeons and go for ARMs they will save almost 2/3rd ….now if only someone has the balls put ARM w/ server

Hmm – Apple making a new xServe powered by the A5 (or A6, A7, A[0-9])? (A[0-9]* multiple digits perhaps ??!)

omor banu abdulhakeem

Posted September 26th, 2012

it should be believed servers that are more sophisticatd than google servers are still on the way.These servers will not be for the entire public,it would servers apps for exclusive citizens of the world.I MEAN THE RICHEST WORLD CITIZENS.IT ALSO AN AVENUE TO RETURN TO OLD TRADITION OF YOU DOING WHAT YOU KNOW HOW TO DO ONCE YOU ARE GLUED TO CYBER SPACE.