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http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/ http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/
by VikingCoder 14y ago
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/ http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/
- knowaveragejoe 14y agoAmusing easter eggs throughout. One guy has rick roll videos playing on both his computers.
- svdad 14y agoLove the storm trooper.
- dredmorbius 14y agoNot very effective security considering the R2 unit rolling past him.
- jrockway 14y agoThat wasn't the droid he was looking for.
- squarecat 14y agoSo, basically, the Lenoir data center is their sightseeing location for "factory tours". The only data stored there is probably Doodles...
- Evbn 14y agoYeah so you can't actually see the data when you visit a data center.
- squarecat 14y agoUnderstood, which is why Google, if it's going to all the effort of setting up open door press days, is missing a huge opportunity by not employing hypervisualized metaphors/exhibits to demonstrate how truly amazing a modern data center is, not to mention reinforcing how critical it is for so much of what the average user does every day. They should probably contract a couple Disney Imagineers and do it right. They could benefit from the the humanizing effects and even create a quirky, niche destination in the process. Hell, throw in an "Android Experience" showroom and it'd probably even have legitimate commercial value.
- rpearl 14y agoIt would all be fake. What's the point?
- jodrellblank 14y agoJust think how much wasted effort and embarrassment you could have saved Pixar, Disney / Disneyworld, HollyWood, Shakespeare and JK Rowling if you'd been there to point this out to them.
- rpearl 14y agoyou're totally right, industrial data centers are the same as entertainment venues and should be combined.
- plywoodtrees 14y agoConceptual cartoony view of how a data centre works: http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend