Comments on: YouTube tour reveals Google data center designs

Want to peek inside Google's formerly uber-secret data centers? The company has published its tour on YouTube.

[lonestarState]

Some pretty interesting. For a minute I thought I was watching, how soda pop is made. Google Pop!

[terminalblue]

how soda pop is made...you can tell by the screen shot with the "oil/grease interceptor".

[monkeyfun14]

I'll give props to whoever takes the time to watch the whole 5 hrs of those videos.

[DC_]

Here's another Eco-Friendly data center with a much shorter (easy to view) video.
http://www.eds.com/news/features/5138/

[rcockrell]

Funny thing about this whole article. On google's website they have been touting existing data centers that run PUE's of 1.12 and this one is only getting 1.25. The lower the number the better.

http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/measuring.html

The difference between the older data centers and the new one is that before they were running outside air economizing (no mechanical cooling) and the new one uses water side economizing with chillers. They finally got the clue that they had a very high server failure rate in the existing data centers and that the cost of servers and disposal was eatting up any savings from energy. It also was not sustainable as the rules for e-waste have been changing. No Outside Air Economizing! It's not sustainable!