Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., provides cloud and AI services through one of the largest and most advanced networks of data centers in the world.
Google is digging trenches for underground fiber deployment to its data center in The Dalles, Oregon after repeated incidents in which hunters shot up the company's aerial fiber cables.
Google will use cool sea water in the cooling system for its new data center in Hamina, Finland, which may be the first sea-cooled data center. The initiative continues Google's focus on data center efficiency and sustainability.
Instead of buying a gazillion more servers, Google's engineering team hunkered down with the other teams involved in the Instant launch and developed workarounds.
Google has confirmed that Daniel Costello, who has been a key member of data center design team at Microsoft and Intel, has joined the company's data center staff. Costello has been a key architect of Microsoft's move to modular data center design.
Do you pursue James Bond-level secrecy for your data center, or invite the mayor in for a tour? An Oregon paper presents a "study in contrasts" between the Google facility in The Dalles and the new Facebook facility being built in Prineville, Oregon.
Google has used its new status as an energy company to strike a deal to buy a large volume of electricity from an Iowa company that uses wind turbines to generate its power.
Google is building again. After several years of muted investment in its data center infrastructure, Google reported capital expenditures of $476 million in the second quarter of 2010, more than doubling its spending from the previous quarter.
Google has patented a design for a "server sandwich" in which two motherboards are attached to either side of a liquid-cooled heat sink, which is cooled through a series of pipes containing cold fluid.
Google is stepping up its efforts to make the Internet faster, using its software, servers and infrastructure to provide tools to help web site owners build speedier sites. Google's Urs Holzle outlined the company's efforts in his Keynote at the...
Google has been awarded a patent on data center layouts that stack containers up to four high, and others featuring rows of containers attached to a central power spine or distributed in girds organized along shared power and cooling lines.