Google Spotlights Data Center Inner Workings

Google has shed a little light on the inner workings of its data centers during the Google I/O conference in San Francisco today. Interesting stuff.

Google doesn't reveal exactly how many servers it has, but I'd estimate it's easily in the hundreds of thousands. It puts 40 servers in each rack, Dean said, and by one reckoning, Google has 36 data centers across the globe. With 150 racks per data center, that would mean Google has more than 200,000 servers, and I'd guess it's far beyond that and growing every day.

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