Google data centers

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Google uses large data center facilities to provide their services, which combine large drives, computer nodes organized in aisles of racks, internal and external networking, environmental controls (mainly cooling and humidification control), and operations software (especially as concerns load balancing and fault tolerance). There is no official data on how many servers are in Google data centers, but Gartner estimated in a July 2016 report that Google at the time had 2.5 million servers. This number is changing as the company expands capacity and refreshes its hardware. Originally designed in the early 2000s around clusters of commodity personal computers to serve Google Search, the facilities have since evolved into hyperscale campuses powering Google Cloud Platform (GCP), YouTube, and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Modern sites integrate custom-designed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerators, Arm-based CPUs, and optical circuit switching fabrics, operating at a fleet-wide...

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