Google's data centers may not be surrounded by moats filled with sharks with friggin' laser beams on their heads. But one of them has a pond full of alligators.

Google invested $872 million in its Internet infrastructure in the third quarter of 2012, up from $774 million the previous quarter. Over the last four quarters, Google has invested nearly $3.2 billion in servers and mission-critical facilities.

One of Google's best-kept secrets has been the details of its cooling system, which allows Google to pack tens of thousands of servers into racks. Google's Joe Kava discusses the design of its cooling system, where all the magic is focused on the...

Google has provided the most comprehensive look yet inside its mighty Internet infrastructure, releasing a portfolio of images of its data centers that reveal the technology powering its online information empire.

Google today opened its new data center in Dublin, reinforcing that city's status as a pivotal hub for cloud computing services for European markets. Google invested €75 million ($96.7 million US) in the facility, which joins major cloud data...

Google has cut a deal with a local utility to provide wind energy for the power grid supporting a large Google data center in Pryor, Oklahoma. The environmental group Greenpeace hailed the agreement as a model for how cloud computing firms can...

Google is expanding its infrastructure into South America. Today the search giant announced plans to build a $150 million data center in Quilicura, Chile. The facility will be Google's first data center in Latin America, and continues the...

Google invested $774 million in its Internet infrastructure in the second quarter of 2012, an increase from $607 million in the previous quarter. Over the last four quarters, Google has invested nearly $2.5 billion in servers and server farms...