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- Anth741, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21A really big mirror... to launch into space... to stop global warming (imagine Ad revenue from that).
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11hardly secret, this is visible from Interstate 84, one of the most travelled roads in Oregon.
- rocke86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Info here
http://news.com.com/Jostling+to+get+inside+Googles+Oregon+outpost/2100-1030_3-6089518.html
photos here
http://news.com.com/2300-1030-6089390.html - musteval, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9How exciting, a building :|
- jjk5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"just down the proverbial street from Redwood."
Did you mean Redmond? - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9It glows at night because of all the floodlamps for construction. Look at the picture. It's really obvious that that's exactly what those are.
This article is a really over-hyped set of crappy pictures (who took these? A chimp with a camera phone?) of an under-construction datacenter. Those things on the roof? Air conditioning. Standard datacenter stuff: computers generate heat. There are hundreds if not thousands of datacenters all over the country.
This has gotta be the lamest thing I've ever seen on digg's front page. - pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you see the tiny little chillers on top of the building? they cool air. Lots of air. That air is not free.
- Tochi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You know your company is big when...
You build a giant Data Center and people think you're hoarding alien secrets. - pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That has to be one of two things, based solely on the COOLING CAPACITY.
1.) A massive new Data Center, or
2.) A semiconductor manufacturing facility.
Personally I lean towards the Data Center concept since it is being built practically next door to "The Dalles" hydro-electric plant (Which Google recently bought).How's that for REDUNDANT POWER BACKUP? Plus the water from that river is COLD AS ICE YEAR ROUND and those are CHILLED AIR systems on the roofs of the buildings. They could easily circulate COLD water from the river into the CHILLED AIR systems, thereby drastically improving performance and reducing cost even further. Oh and in case I forgot to mention the LARGEST DARK FIBER LINE in the USA runs along that river and guess who owns it? - rocke86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It is called Project 02, I really like how it glows at night. Prepare for the second coming of Google!
- bcsam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4interesting pictures but all the alien crap is rediculous...its a server farm...plain and simple
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7cummon guys, it's the development center for their next product
Google Space Search BETA! - deadlierchair, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Seriously people, this isn't some CA style Google campus with tons of employees and dot-com antics, it's a data center! If it were any other company building this, it would be no big deal.
On top of that, the pictures aren't that good and there aren't that many of them. OK...we see some buildings being put up, and some lights...It's cool that Google is doing something in Oregon (yay! join us!) but to be honest it's just a box with servers. Nothing that crazy! - SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What's baby Suri?
Also, I'd like to find this on google earth. If anyone has a link, please post it. - eightysix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"They are obviously planning the next version of Oregon Trail."
Funniest comment ever. - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3dude! its those light panels from the end of close encounters!
where are they building the mashed-potato mountain?! - Drumrboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4""Our orders are no news media," one of the men told me. "The client (Google) asked to refrain from taking pictures. We're not allowed to let you on site. All I can say is sorry."
I nodded and said thank you and then asked for the man's name.
"I don't have one," he told me."
that guard is way too full of himself, and way into securing a top secret search engine server site :P :) - affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[homer's ooo's] ooooo dark fiber [/homer's ooo's]
- andrew522, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3too much joking about aliens and too little information otherwise - altough other than the photos, I suppose there isnt much else to say.
I just remembered - they are making a new building in Michigan too (Datacenters/POPs for the Google ISP?) - bullox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They've got to crunch all of our personal data somewhere.
- cwcentral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Should be a pretty big datacenter. I usually see 1 of those A/C units on a 5 story gov't building.
- Markie1006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Normally not the grammar nazi, but I thought journalists were supposed to major in English?
It's a "tract of land", not a "track of land" - midgetbus87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe those new servers are for that dynamic web storage thing that I heard a while ago as a rumor.
Very interesting indeed. - tehpoutine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7you suck for not using the reply link.
- Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ill have to drive down there, worried and interested PDXers should setup a road trip and invade the googleplex!
- sven007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow, check out the A/C units. there must be a ***** of servers in there
- mooseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've driven by it and that is indeed the place. It's just off the westernmost exit for The Dalles. Start heading north and you can't miss it. It's huge.
- BigJuiceMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heard a very good segment on NPR re: MS + Yahoo + Google all moving into the region 'cause of the cheap, reliable power...and the t33n pr0n
- Calabahn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What no pictures of the server room? This is lame. I can see construction outside of my office window.
No Digg. - Sainthax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1datacenter...those are 500t chillers on the roof. Two of those are good for about 30-50k sq/ft depending on heat btus per sq/ft the servers give off.
- bullox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2then vote with your feet.
- YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just means he's doing his job, or happpens to be 'undocumented'.
- tjplaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually the GooglePlex is located in The Dallas, not Dallas.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It's where they will be hosting their new ISP company :)
Nice knowing you AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Comcast, etc.... - emeriste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This story receiving so many diggs is disappointing to me. This is a link to some low quality pictures of a building with such exotic features as lights and air conditioning. Comparing a building that by all accounts is highly visible from a major Interstate highway to Area 51 is a tortured analogy. Beating a tortured analogy like a dead horse does not make it more clever. Sadly I think some people who dugg this story actually think it was being serious. More sad is that something this banal could make it to the front page while real news dies in obscurity.
- disrupter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Boring
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You're dreaming.
- wordsofwisedumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its the communications base for their Copernicus Center on the moon.
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html - tehpoutine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2digg needs a rumours section for all this BS. I'm sick of reading Apple, Ubuntu, Google rumours, they're up every single day.
- xfTwitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1this is pretty old. The news.com article a couple of weeks old I think. Drove past it two weeks ago going from WA to CA. Not hidden or anything, you can see it easily from the freeway.
Not hard to see why the chose the dalles. Cheap land, cheap power, easy access to fiber and a fantastic view of the gorge....
windsurfing will be the new official sport of google. - vdubski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@Anth741
That episode was on yersterday on Adult Swim. Futurama FTW - jizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1At least rocke86 posted useful information, this article is retarded.
- skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The whole "outer space/Roswell alien conspiracy" quasi-joke wasn't funny the first time. Putting a handful in each paragraph got old really fast.
- DavisFreeberg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It makes me wonder why all of the secrets and hidden code names. Very interesting . . .
- buzzert, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4...who cares? It's a building.
- Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Forget photos of baby Suri"
Who? Oh the kid no one cared about because everyone was so intrigued with Angelina's baby. Suri can thank her dumbass father for that one. - Scott2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thank you.
I thought the writer of "what not to do in a server room" did an awful job trying to be funny, but this guy takes the cake. - xman2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You know what I like.... Google is the only company that can keep their collective mouths shut. Any other company would have "leaked" whatever they were working on by now. You know it's cool when even the people working there are giggling because they know something we don't!
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Is that the one where Google keeps its crashed alien spacecraft and all the remains of the alien pilots?
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