In an essay about the future of Google, co-founder Sergey
Brin shared a picture of where Google stores your emails and photos.
Google used to be notoriously secretive about its data
centers and the custom hardware it designs and uses in them. And it still
doesn't talk in detail about much of that stuff.
But in the past year, as companies like Facebook and
Microsoft have talked about all the new tech they've invented for data centers,
particularly tech that makes them greener, consuming less energy, so, too, has
Google begun to show off its state-of the art facilities.
Below is the picture Brin used showing off the racks and
racks of servers and computer storage Google uses to store your emails and
photos.
And this is what Brin said about them:
Advances also made it possible to provide enterprise class
email, featuring vast storage and search capabilities, to anyone in the world -
for free; that's why we created Gmail. And, if you fast-forward to today, we
recently harnessed continued improvements in storage cost and machine learning
to create Google Photos, which lets everyone in the world safely keep, and
search through, a lifetime of photos and videos.
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