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Google Claims Most Efficient Data Centers Ever
Responding to criticism for its secrecy over its data centers, Google has lifted the veil a little on how much energy its information hotbeds use. The world's largest search engine insisted that...
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Push This Button, Kill Xbox Live
The Sunday Times Magazine took a look at data centers, detailing the gear behind the "cloud." Here's the emergency shut-down button at Microsoft's 500,000-square-foot center in Washington. You would...
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So It Really Is a "Series of Tubes"
It looks like the cavernous belly of a massive cruise ship, or a "level" in the real-life horror video game that is CERN. In reality, there's a good chance you use these tubes—which belong to...
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How Google Crunches All That Data
If data centers are the brains of an information company, then Google is one of the brainiest there is. Though always evolving, it is, fundamentally, in the business of knowing everything. Here are...
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This Is the Cloud: Inside Microsoft's Secret Stealth Data Centers
"The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data...
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Greenpeace Skewers Zuckerberg's "So Coal" Network In Adorably...
The edgy ecophiles at Greenpeace have placed Facebook in their crosshairs, bashing Mark Zuckerberg over what they allege is a reliance on coal to fuel his (substantial) data centers. A new video slams...
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Server Porn: Inside Facebook's Gleaming Green Data Center
Facebook recently took the wraps off its shiny new data center in Prineville, Oregon and—courtesy the Open Compute Project—we've learned the whole massive thing sounds lean, mean and relatively green....
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Inside a Google Data Center
This video gives a rare look inside one of Google's data centers, you know the place where Google stores all your personal data. This video put out by Google wants to reassure you that all your deets...
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Mysterious "Castle" Appears in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Will there be a Castle in the iCloud when Mac OS X 10.7 Lion arrives? New screens suggest there could be, although what's contained in this strange feature remains very much a mystery. More »
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What's Apple's Other Giant New Data Center For?
Apple's ginormous data center in North Carolina has—or had?—been shrouded in mystery for some time now. But did you know that they just inked a deal on another iData haven, nearly as big, in SoCal?...
View ArticleF.B.I. Raids Data Center, Seizes Servers, Knocks Big Sites Offline
For reasons unknown, the F.B.I. raided a data center and seized several servers, causing known online brands, including Pinboard and those in the Curbed network (like our friends at Eater), to go...
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Amazon: The Official Cloud Server of the US Government
The US Gov is no stranger to Amazon's data centers: they've used them for sites like Recovery.gov and Energy.gov. But after shuttering 40% of their data centers, the Government is looking to Amazon to...
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Somewhere in Georgia, a Flushed Toilet Is Helping Google Cool Its Servers
Facebook's Arctic data centers and Google's seawater server farms both tried to check the massive energy costs needed to keep their servers sufficiently cooled. Google's Douglas County data center has...
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Apple's Data Centers Will Be Powered Entirely By Renewable Energy
Greenpeace has been on the offensive against Apple this week, blasting the company for sourcing the power for its energy-intensive data centers from coal power plants. Today, Apple fired back with...
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This Data Center Is Protected by a Fortress of Defense
If you want to know how to protect a data center in 2012 you don't have to look further than the QTS Richmond Data Center. With what seems like a fortress surrounding it, the data center meets all the...
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Data Centers Waste a Ridiculously Massive Amount of Energy
There is a lot of data out there, and more is being created every day. It takes a lot of resources to keep it around, and make sure that you and everyone else can access what they want, when they...
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Full Virtual Access Inside Google's Secretive Data Centers
Google's thrown open the doors to its data centers, publishing a whole site dedicated to photos inside the otherwise secretive locations, adding Street View to the center in Lenoir, NC, and allowing...
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Find Out Where That Internet On Your Computer Really Came From
The Internet is an ethereal thing. It's everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Sure, it's "on" your computer (or your phone), but it came from somewhere, and this art installation shows you where....
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Google Claims Most Efficient Data Centers Ever
Responding to criticism for its secrecy over its data centers, Google has lifted the veil a little on how much energy its information hotbeds use. The world's largest search engine insisted that...
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Push This Button, Kill Xbox Live
The Sunday Times Magazine took a look at data centers, detailing the gear behind the "cloud." Here's the emergency shut-down button at Microsoft's 500,000-square-foot center in Washington. You would...
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