Check it out! Google has posted some simply amazing photos of their data centers, and some of the infrastructure of the 'net. This stuff is rarely seen, and these facilities are treated like state secrets, so this is a pretty special set of photos.
I'd love to see what you find, share here if you feel like it. Here's a few of my favorite photos, for various reasons.
Thousands of feet of pipe line the inside of our data centers. We paint them bright colors not only because it's fun, but also to designate which one is which.
These colorful pipes are responsible for carrying water in and out of our Oregon data center. The blue pipes supply cold water and the red pipes return the warm water back to be cooled.
Inside our campus network room, routers and switches allow our data centers to talk to each other. The fiber optic networks connecting our sites can run at speeds that are more than 200,000 times faster than a typical home Internet connection. The fiber cables run along the yellow cable trays near the ceiling.
As part of our commitment to keeping our users' data safe, we destroy all failed drives, on site.
