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Could you shed some light on why google moved away from their shipping container design to a more traditional yet still custom data center approach? Thanks!
by winslow 9y ago
Could you shed some light on why google moved away from their shipping container design to a more traditional yet still custom data center approach?
Thanks!
- pavs 9y agoNot working for Google, but I think it's for multiple reasons. - hardware has gotten a lot faster, which helps the second reason. - Google giving away free GGC nodes to ISPs (if you meet their requirements). The distribution of these nodes has gotten a lot wider since container days. - Google is building more smaller scale (a dozen racks or so) traditional data centers closer to ISPs. I don't think shipping container design was never a very good idea, to begin with - it was an interesting experiment that didn't scale as well as they thought it would.