Anyone read that piece in today’s New York Times about the monster complex Google is building in Northern Oregon as part of their plane to take over the Universe? Just think about the dimensions of "Project 02," as the new data center is known. "As big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky," which pegs Google as an easy leader in the global data-center race. Easy to see why, when the Googleplex, as it's called, hosts an estimated 450,000 servers in 25 centers worldwide, on top of which it’s been buying up all that dark fiber that’s been lying around since the orgy of the late ninties. "Google is like the Borg," Milo Medin, a computer networking expert who was a founder of the 1990's online service @Home, told The NYT. "I know of no other carrier or enterprise that distributes applications on top of its computing resource as effectively as Google." Can Yahoo or Microsoft ever catch up? Better ask Captain Picard!
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