In a blog post, Technical Infrastructure Senior Vice-President Urs Holze said, “Very few people have stepped inside Google’s data centers, and for good reason: Our first priority is the privacy and security of your data and we go to great lengths to protect it, keeping our sites under close guard.”
Photographs by Connie Zhou on the peak of Google’s data center are available at Where the Internet Lives. The Street View Technology allows users to virtually visit Google’s data center in Lenoir, NC.
“Walk in the front door, head up the stairs, turn right at the ping-pong table and head down the hall to the data center floor. Or take a stroll around the exterior of the facility to see our energy-efficient cooling infrastructure,” explained Holze.
“When you’re on a Google website (like right now), you’re accessing one of the most powerful server networks in the known Universe. But what does that actually look like? Here’s your chance to see inside what we’re calling the physical Internet,” said Google in the unveiling of a virtual visit to Google’s data servers.
A video explaining the data center and the Street View Technology is available in Youtube.
Steve Levy, WIRED magazine reporter, wrote an article explore Google’s history, the evolution of technology, and the Street View infrastructure.
To be recalled, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google out of a student research project using recycled and re-used servers.
“In the coming days we’ll share a series of posts on the Google Green Blog that explore some of the photographs in more detail, so stay tuned for more."
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