A sneak peak at what Google’s Alabama data center will look like

[tps_header]Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield announced Wednesday afternoon a Google Data Center is being built in Jackson County, Alabama, bringing a $600 million initial investment and providing 75-100 jobs.
So let’s take a look at what Google’s high-tech data centers look like… [/tps_header]

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Color-coded pipes each serve different functions. For example, the pink pipes transport water to the cooling towers.

Whenever you use a Google product, you’re connecting to one of our data centers around the world. Google employees work here keeping the data center up and running 24 hours a day… On the server floor, powerful computers handle everything from billions of searches to hosting YouTube videos to protecting your email against viruses. We’ve custom designed these servers to be compact and energy efficient. To ensure you have access to your data whenever you need it, we keep each piece of data stored on at least two servers… The machines in our data centers are always working. Cooling centers… pipe in water to cool them down and keep them running.”

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