[olug] The first sysadmin job at the new Google facility in Council Bluffs

[Cesar Delgado]

Google is very secretive.  And when I say "very" I mean _VERY_ 
secretive.  I too was thinking of what else could be going on in the new 
facility but they also are making another one in South Carolina 
(http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Apr/04/google_announces_600m_so_car_project.html). 
  Here in the Bay Area (I'm living in Sunnyvale now) between Google and 
Yahoo there are no more data centers.  They've bought/rented all of 
them.  Ask is also in the running to suck up data center space with 
their Ask3D stuff.  So, if there's no more space to put machines, they 
just build more data centers.  As well, and I don't know how many of you 
know this but bellow I-80 there is a lot of fiber that goes from coast 
to coast.  Anyone who builds next to it only has to hop, skip or jump 
and they can get their own lambda, or .  I'm sure in the case of Google 
they've already bought up more dark fiber under I-80 than anyone can 
imagine.  I think the Iowa facility is exactly that.  Tap into that huge 
pool of fiber to better their service.  Then again, they might make a 
campus over there with offices.  Cheap land's not a bad thing.

Just my $0.02

-Cesar

Travis Owens wrote:
> Can anyone provide some more information on the Google facility at
> large? I've heard everything from 500 positions to 200 positions to 30
> positions. I've heard their building the data center, but they have
> options on another 1000 acres or so and will expand after the initial
> building is operational...
> 
> If any of the larger aspects are true, it would stand to reason this
> will not be just a data center in the sense of the word... I think
> they have something up their sleeve, so to speak, perhaps a new
> project they're getting into...
> 
> Thoughts, comments, info???
> 
> 
> On 6/19/07, Adam Haeder <adamh at aiminstitute.org> wrote:
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