(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Following last week’s unveiling of its secret container data center design, search engine giant Google (www.google.com) posted several YouTube videos this week that showed off its heavily publicized data center.
Last week, Google confirmed speculation within the industry that the company had built a data center using server-packed shipping containers.
The company outlined the details of the data center in a presentation at the Google Data center Efficiency Summit in Mountain View, California.
As previously reported, the 75,000 square feet data center has a container hanger equipped with 45 containers, with some of the containers stored on a second-story balcony.
The company says the facility has slots for over 45,000 servers in 45 containers.
Google posted a handful of videos from the conference, starting with the tour of the container data center.
All five YouTube clips can be viewed in Justin Lee’s blog post here.
The video shows that Google’s custom-designed servers are packed 1,160 at a time into shipping containers to form a modular unit of computing.
The company also offers a video tour of Google’s water treatment facility, which uses water to cool the hot air produced by the servers.
Most Google data centers use chillers to cool the water by refrigeration, but one data center in Belgium is experimenting with the use only of the less power-hungry evaporative cooling.
Google also posts a three-part video that shows over three hours of footage from the data center energy efficiency conference.
This includes presentations from key industry executives, such as The Green Grid’s John Tuccillo who discusses the “Standards from The Green Grid”, Google’s own Chris Malone and Ben Jai who give their “Insights Into Google’s PUE”, EPA’s Andrew Fanara looks at “What’s Next for the Data Center Industry”, the data center industry’s “Best Practices” according to James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services, and many others.
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