Google Container DC tour

[PintOfKittens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I

Nice!

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Interesting efficiency figures. They must be running the transformers at around 50% load. A lot of redundancy built in to the services.

[10JH]

I don't understand a lot of what was said in the video, but it looks damn impressive!

Why do they have the containers though? Why would they need to switch over whole containers?

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10JH said:

I don't understand a lot of what was said in the video, but it looks damn impressive!

Why do they have the containers though? Why would they need to switch over whole containers?

They can be built off-site.

They can be taken out of operation for maintenance.

[PintOfKittens]

Smiler. said:

10JH said:

I don't understand a lot of what was said in the video, but it looks damn impressive!

Why do they have the containers though? Why would they need to switch over whole containers?

They can be built off-site.

They can be taken out of operation for maintenance.

Can shove more containers to increase power

[Targarama]

Scalability, portability, disaster recovery,, fast set-up, military, government - lots of uses. Boring as fluck though.

[anonymous-user]

Umm, i get this........

[anonymous-user]

Working now, pesky data centre

[paddyhasneeds]

Do people exist in America that speak like that or do they put their voices through a speech machine? I ask as every presentation I see seems to have the same sort of "droning" voice and I am starting to wonder if it's a person or a computer.

[Zumbruk]

paddyhasneeds said:

Do people exist in America that speak like that or do they put their voices through a speech machine? I ask as every presentation I see seems to have the same sort of "droning" voice and I am starting to wonder if it's a person or a computer.

It sounded like a speech synthesiser to me. Dull as f*ck.