{"id":2224,"date":"2008-02-16T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T05:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/16\/google-the-new-heavy-industry\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T05:33:16","slug":"google-the-new-heavy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/16\/google-the-new-heavy-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Google: The new heavy industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harper’s magazine has a great feature in its March issue under the “Annotation” banner: It’s a close-up look<\/a> at the blueprints for Google’s new server farms in The Dalles, Oregon — the ones that the New York Times wrote about back in 2006<\/a>. The plans describe three giant buildings of almost 70,000 square feet or so, right beside the Columbia River (where there is a handy hydroelectric dam nearby), although only two of the farms have actually been constructed so far.<\/p>\n

Based on industry standards for such farms, Harper’s figures they will use about 500 watts per square foot by 2011, which would mean a total of 103 megawatts, or enough to power a town of about 82,000 homes. The piece<\/a> also notes that a nearby aluminum smelter that is being torn down used about 85 megawatts, and employed about 500 people. Google estimates it will create between 100 and 200 jobs.<\/p>\n

When the New York Times wrote its piece<\/a> in 2006, Google was estimated to have 25 server farm complexes around the globe, with a total of about 500,000 servers<\/a>. That was already one of the largest distributed computing clusters in the world. According to Harper’s, current estimates are that it has about twice that many<\/a> now — which means that its power costs<\/a> could be as high as $200-million a year.<\/p>\n

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Harper’s magazine has a great feature in its March issue under the “Annotation” banner: It’s a close-up look at the blueprints for Google’s new server farms in The Dalles, Oregon — the ones that the New York Times wrote about back in 2006. The plans describe three giant buildings of almost 70,000 square feet or … <\/p>\n

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