Imagine if Google put a data center in Hangar One at Moffett Field (humor)

Mercury news covers a Google subsidiary taking over the maintenance of Hangar One at Moffett Field.

Google to restore Hangar One and operate runways at Moffett Field

By Brandon Bailey

bbailey@mercurynews.com

POSTED:   02/10/2014 07:42:48 PM PST | UPDATED:   ABOUT 9 HOURS AGO

Hangar One at Moffett Field, 2011. (Mercury News)

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- After designing driverless cars, experimenting with robots and secretly building a fleet of barges, Google is taking on a new challenge: running an airfield in the heart of Silicon Valley and restoring one of the area's most iconic buildings, once used to house Navy blimps.

Imagine what kind of data center Google put in the hangar.  The super structure looks like it could be the basis for a new rack system.  :-)

 

Google's plans for the Moffett airfield are unclear, although the agreement could allow limited commercial development, or possibly a museum or education center at the hangar site. The company declined to comment, saying only that it wants to "preserve the heritage of Moffett Federal Airfield."

A view of working in Amazon's IT group vs. Google

We have all seen when people have sent an e-mail that copied the whole company.  Thanks to social networking, you can now make same mistake magnitudes worse by sharing to the public vs. your company.

Here is a post by a Google engineer that has been published on another google plus site on his comparison of amazon vs. google.

Rip Rowan

Shared publicly  -  Oct 12, 2011

The best article I've ever read about architecture and the management of IT.

***UPDATE***

This post was intended to be shared privately and was accidentally made public. Thanks to +Steve Yegge for allowing us to keep it out there. It's the sort of writing people do when they think nobody is watching: honest, clear, and frank.

The world would be a better place if more people wrote this sort of internal memoranda, and even better if they were allowed to write it for the outside world.

Hopefully Steve will not experience any negative repercussions from Google about this. On the contrary, he deserves a promotion.

***UPDATE #2***

This post has received a lot of attention. For anyone here who arrived from The Greater Internet - I stand ready to remove this post if asked. As I mentioned before, I was given permission to keep it up.

Google's openness to allow us to keep this message posted on its own social network is, in my opinion, a far greater asset than any SaS platform. In the end, a company's greatest asset is its culture, and here, Google is one of the strongest companies on the planet.

Steve Yegge originally shared:

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

 

Steve responds well and adds another point on how wicked smart Jeff Bezos is.

Bezos is so goddamned smart that you have to turn it into a game for him or he’ll be bored and annoyed with you. That was my first realization about him. Who knows how smart he was before he became a billionaire -- let’s just assume it was “really frigging smart”, since he did build Amazon from scratch. But for years he’s had armies of people taking care of everything for him. He doesn’t have to do anything at all except dress himself in the morning and read presentations all day long. So he’s really, REALLY good at reading presentations. He’s like the Franz Liszt of sight-reading presentations.

So you have to start tearing out whole paragraphs, or even pages, to make it interesting for him. He will fill in the gaps himself without missing a beat. And his brain will have less time to get annoyed with the slow pace of your brain.

I mean, imagine what it would be like to start off as an incredibly smart person, arguably a first-class genius, and then somehow wind up in a situation where you have a general’s view of the industry battlefield for ten years. Not only do you have more time than anyone else, and access to more information than anyone else, you also have this long-term eagle-eye perspective that only a handful of people in the world enjoy.

In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs.

Google's Urs Hölzle shares its cost for data center space - 15 years ago (Humor)

So many people are curious what Google pays for data center power and network.  Google’s Urs Hoelzle shares its data center cost.  It’s first bill for its data center 15 years ago.  :-)

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Urs Hölzle

Shared publicly  -  Yesterday 12:31 PM

 

 

15 years ago (on Feb 1st, 1999) I first set foot in a Google datacenter. Well, not really -- in the Google cage in the Exodus datacenter in Santa Clara.  Larry had led me there for a tour (I wasn't an employee yet) and it was my first time in any datacenter.  And you couldn't really "set foot" in the first Google cage because it was tiny (7'x4', 2.5 sqm) and filled with about 30 PCs on shelves.  a1 through a24 were the main servers to build and serve the index and c1 through c4 were the crawl machines.

Maybe 15 years from Urs will share what Google’s bills look like now. Can you imagine what Google’s data center infrastructure will look like 15 years from now?

Google keeps up the pace of Data Center Capacity, spends $2.26 bil

In Google’s earnings statement is a reported $2.26 bil spent to increase data center capacity.

In the fourth quarter of 2013, capital expenditures were $2.26 billion, the majority of which was for production equipment, data-center construction, and real estate purchases.

Here is a nice graph that shows the past spending.

Google’s data center spending down slightly, but still crazy high

by Derrick Harris

21 HOURS AGO

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Google spend a little less on infrastructure during the fourth quarter than during the third quarter, but it still spent a lot. Like $2.25 billion a lot.

Complete Slides for Urs Hoelzle's OpenFlow talk at 2012 Open Networking Summit

I wrote a post back in July 2012 on Urs Hoelzle’s presentation on OpenFlow at Google. I pieced together the presentation from snippets around the web.

People still look for the Google presentation, so I figured it is a good thing to send an update out.

 here is the original slide deck which is much better.

Here is the Youtube video of the talk that you can look at the slides.