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2nd April 2009 - Link Blog

Google uncloaks once-secret server. Instead of a data centre wide UPS and redundant power supplies, each Google server has its own 12V battery. They live in standard shipping containers, each holding 1,160 servers.

Posted 2nd April 2009 at 10:47 am

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