Have you ever wondered how Google manages to provide free e-mail storage to hundreds of millions of Gmail users, over 3 billion daily search queries, millions of ad auctions and YouTube videos, among other incredible things? We sometimes rely on Google more than we rely on our own memories, and the billions of pages that the company indexes each day – in real time – exist in data centers around the world. As a global giant, employees must learn how to keep the secrets behind its organizational prowess. In 2012, however, Google published photos of its data centers for the public.
This photo is of a central cooling plant in Google's Douglas County, Georgia, data center.
