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- friend18, on 10/12/2007, -23/+122It's a series of tubes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+82fool! no one's ever infiltrated Google and lived!
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Those big metal things on top are giant heatsinks for their super-human-A.I. processors.
- Daisuke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30"What's inside? That's a lot of cooling for a small building like that."
You've almost answered yourself - I'd bet there are plenty of servers in there, and they would generate _a lot_ of heat. - Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33A picture of the outside? I swear I've seen that already, and I swear it's not that interesting. Get pictures inside and then dig that.
- aOenEz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29They should've hidden video cameras in the pizza boxes. :) That would've been the best modern trojan horse to date. ^^
- CatsAreGods, on 10/12/2007, -11/+36It's not a truck!
- javierror, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20GOOGLE MAPS?
Honestly, people. - ch4rles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17i am planning to dress up as an air conditioner mechanic and sneak into the complex and get pictures for everyone, so stay tuned and i will see what i can pull off for my fellow diggers
- jbpounders, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Have fun seeing it for now. Looks like they planted Leyland Cypress Trees around it which grow reallly fast..I say 2 years and no view.
- dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17cambrian house did :P
- thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Have some more:
http://flickr.com/photos/bettineski/202392380/in/photostream/
http://flickr.com/photos/mc_white/167725944/ (the entire complex) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12It is the air conditioning for the underground complex. If you have ever played Half-life it is like that underground complex. Google getting ready to take over the world.
- GorGenator, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Why did you post that twice? Do you not have anything better to do than copy paste your own *****? GTalk is good, Gmail owns, and google video is a hell of a lot better than youtube... basically the other stuff all sucks. but still.
- fiaworldrally, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Dell servers?
- habfan29, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Has this shown up on Google Earth yet? I'd like to see it from above.
- heavyd14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The right side? I glad I'm not on the wrong side.
My Geography teacher in Middle School had a map just for clowns like you, it had South at the top of the map, and would go off on anyone who said he had his map upside down. - G33k0ft3chz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm going with Daisuke, Servers are one idea to come to my mind.
- Zilax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6They are not chillers. They are cooling towers. There are water to water chillers located elsewhere. Cooling towers spray water from the top down into a basin and pass air over the spray. This cooled water goes into the condensor loop side of the chiller (off screen) where a (probably) freon based compressor exchanges heat with another circuit of water called the chilled water loop. The newly heated condensor water exits the chiller and goes back to the top of the tower to be re-cooled. The chilled water loop passes through air conditioner cooling coils and possibly CPU heatsinks before returning to the chiller. In this way the chiller extracts heat from the building.
- battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No it can't be, because those are industrial chillers on the roof. That is all.
- Crypty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Inside is where they keep their ice cream that they feed employees at their main campus. It needs to stay cold or else it will melt.
- diggmaddy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6you mean the human farms, right?
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4vx69: Then clearly you know nothing about Google's set up.
- rodtrent, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Whoa! Looks like that compound in the movie (and TV show) "Tremors". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/
- wassim2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Whoa! The building has four walls! How does Google do it?
- SPARTACVS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No, it's shown as a big black square. Just like all of Google's other worldwide top-secret locations.
- woodsja, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&sll=45.120053,-120.60791&sspn=1.655042,3.746338&q=dalles,+or&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=45.646688,-121.179199&spn=0.819862,1.873169
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KDLS.html
Everything on the right side of the cascades in Washington is hot during the summer time. Good for farming wheat and, apparently, servers. - Chesh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4More than likely they have purchased alien bodies from the government and are keeping them on ice.
- ngtvtw13ve, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Hopefully this new building will be able to handle all the internets I send and receive.
- ryanjulian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, and they're making more money than you'll ever see in your life, and making lots of people happy with their "failed" products. So who's the *****?
- catfacem3n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is where Google tests Dell's concept laptops.
- dreaz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8And after that they're hiring Tarzan as the main server admin!
- ch4rles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/061906-top-secret-google-data-center-almost.html that is the proper link for some reason you added a ere at the end, i dont know why
- scottmoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow the really cool thing is not on the roof its the jobs...
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=34079
Operations Facilities Coordinator - The Dalles.... Sounds pretty high tech
BA/BS degree required.... No problem
2-5 years related experience..... Got it
Highly organized and detail-oriented..... Sure
Sort and distribute all mail and deliveries, including preparing and sending mail and deliveries....Hey wait its the mail room and oh *****, it pays jack, damn you Google! - TheRonald, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's only 4 evap condensers, actually any manufacturing plant that uses alot of steam (old school television production) would even have more, it's not rare for an acre sized roof to be covered with them. Also these aren't high capacity condensers, if they were they would be squares with a hollow center, and they're trying to recycle most of their water since they're in the desert.
- atomicfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Last time I went to see them, they took pot shots at me with their rifles almost destroying my landspeeder :(
- dotuplink, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3HAL!?
- atomicfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Moisture....would quickly kill the computers...not to mention the weather, curious people and animals, and general insanity that happens when the door to a server room is propped open with an outdated computer.
- willij, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google's Area 51. Yeah, I like that.
- hramos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Meant to say there's two and one in the way. Google has permission to build another.
- chabuhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Zilax
If I were enough of a dork to friend someone on a (anti)social website, I would friend you for that comment.
More insight like yours is needed here. - seek205, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oregon isn't that hot it rains all the time.. Trust me I live here..
- doxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Great images thatsiebguy! It's interesting to see that the chillers were not the entire building but just the edge of a HUGE datacenter. That's some serious processing power that they will have in there.
- battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That link works. If all you see is black, then use the back button, since the page is link-trapped it will then reload the page and then you will see the article - or you can clear your browser cache.
Link-trapped: This is a coded phenomenon done ON PURPOSE to keep the user there, no matter what you do with the back button. It is done in java. Then again, a poorly exited java program will also cause this on accident. - tripston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perhaps Google will finally create a contact email address powered by this building.
- EruLabs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2uhm. Go to computer science class please.
A server can be as small as an ipod nano to a Japanese petaflop supercomputer. The "server" part refers to software running on the machine, with the implication of a powerful computer on a very fast connection.
Its prolly those opterons they ordered, anyone remember that?
oohhh... its like one GIANT box with AMD written all over it.... - tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's inside? A data center...nothing creepy.
- colinodell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1would they save a ton of money on electricity (for cooling) if they built such buildings somewhere in, say, northern Alaska where they can just leave all the doors and windows open to cool it instead? im pretty sure the land would be cheap too...
- mooseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I drove by the googleplex again this weekend and I should emphasize something that nobody else has yet. There's not one of these buildings, but two.
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