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The photos look like "IBM meets Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory".

For the first time, the company has invited cameras inside its top secret facility in North Carolina. Our tour guide is Google's senior vice president, Urs Hoelzle, who's in charge or building and running all of Google's data centers. 'Today we have 55,200 servers on this floor. Each of these servers is basically like a PC, except somewhat more powerful.'

5 minute video from CBS Morning Show:

• https://video.google.com/a/?tab=mv&pli=1#/Play/contentId=2e908def456860ab

A detailed article by Steven Levy:

• http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/

see the original posting from Everything Sysadmin

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