Google’s GIANT Footprint

Nicholas Carr points to This Blueprint for the new Google Data Center up in Oregon. Originally from Keyword: Evil Google’s Addiction To Cheap Electricity. The warehouses holding the computers are each 68,680 square feet, while the attached cooling stations are 18,800 square feet. The blueprint also shows an administration building and a sizable “transient employee dormitory.” Harper’s estimates, roughly, that once all three server buildings are operating in 2011 the plant “can be expected to demand about 103 megawatts of electricity – enough to power 82,000 homes, or a city the size of Tacoma, Washington.”

February 16, 2008 by Uncategorized 0

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