Most of these pictures have been online for a while, I specifically remember that this[⊗] one was photoshopped because the machines in the racks left and right are mirror images of one another... [⊗] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/23
We do a lot of photo shoots for our furniture products. The Photoshop team usually will mirror one side of the sofa with other to make the pictures look symmetrical and nicer. I won't be surprised if the pictures are photoshopped to make them symmetrical to give them a less messy look.
These are beautiful pictures, but it was hard to navigate. 'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had missed the thumbnails at the beginning. Having a button in the middle of these images was also weird (as is having to click something just to see what the images are about. There's plenty of screen real-estate to show the image caption). Also strange is that t…
To add to your note: and does not work with (not so) old browsers.
Most of these pictures have been online for a while, I specifically remember that this[⊗] one was photoshopped because the machines in the racks left and right are mirror images of one another... [⊗] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/23
I have to wonder if they photoshopped that not to make things look symmetrical but to hide some kind of trade secret.
If you look at the picture below, there are blue blankets covering some of the racks. Gotta wonder if under those blankets are something they don't want other companies to know about:
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/2
Most of these pictures have been online for a while, I specifically remember that this[⊗] one was photoshopped because the machines in the racks left and right are mirror images of one another... [⊗] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/23
I have to wonder if they photoshopped that not to make things look symmetrical but to hide some kind of trade secret. If you look at the picture below, there are blue blankets covering some of the racks. Gotta wonder if under those blankets are something they don't want other companies to know about: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/2
NSA is really keen on branding all their interfaces and hardware with their proprietary logos.
They hired quite a bit more than 4 people and there are positions open currently.
The article linked above mentioned one person hired at the time of its writing (2007). Obviously it's six years later now, but even if they hired two hundred, it would still be a staggering investment by the local government ($1 million per job). Again, I'm not sure what the point here is as US States are not much different from countries in a race to the bottom, other than sooner or later you hit bottom. I mainly ju…
You have to consider more than just the employees that Google hired. They're also spending money in the region on a bunch of things besides salaries. One way to look at might be that if the facility remains open for 10 years, then that $1M/employee pays for salaries, and then they get all of the other economic benefits for "free". It sure sounds like a lot of money, but I wouldn't be surprised if it makes sense in some way. Especially since, as the sibling post points out, there would have been a large number of governments competing for it.
These pictures don't do the diversity of the infrastructure justice. (perhaps that is intentional) When I was at Google they had just finished deciding that 'containerized' data centers were not a benefit and had just opened up the buildings in The Dalles, when I left they had brought up the Netherlands and their midwest data centers. Besides the different environments (can you use external air for cooling or not, etc) there have been investigations into power distribution, heating / cooling schemes, and packaging. I don't think any two data centers I walked into looked exactly the same inside. I found that kind of neat.
The article linked above mentioned one person hired at the time of its writing (2007). Obviously it's six years later now, but even if they hired two hundred, it would still be a staggering investment by the local government ($1 million per job). Again, I'm not sure what the point here is as US States are not much different from countries in a race to the bottom, other than sooner or later you hit bottom. I mainly ju…
You have to consider more than just the employees that Google hired. They're also spending money in the region on a bunch of things besides salaries. One way to look at might be that if the facility remains open for 10 years, then that $1M/employee pays for salaries, and then they get all of the other economic benefits for "free". It sure sounds like a lot of money, but I wouldn't be surprised if it makes sense in so…
Depends on the contract the company makes with the local municipality. Our local small town got a WalMart distribution center. The town went bankrupt providing free water, roads and electricity to a building that brought in zero jobs and extra business.
Consider: big companies have expert negotiators. Cities have volunteers.
Most of these pictures have been online for a while, I specifically remember that this[⊗] one was photoshopped because the machines in the racks left and right are mirror images of one another... [⊗] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/23
We do a lot of photo shoots for our furniture products. The Photoshop team usually will mirror one side of the sofa with other to make the pictures look symmetrical and nicer. I won't be surprised if the pictures are photoshopped to make them symmetrical to give them a less messy look.
If you look at the photo it's just three sets of racks that have been mirrored to the other side; the ones with the orange lights and red cables. None of the other racks looked mirrored.
These are beautiful pictures, but it was hard to navigate. 'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had missed the thumbnails at the beginning. Having a button in the middle of these images was also weird (as is having to click something just to see what the images are about. There's plenty of screen real-estate to show the image caption). Also strange is that t…
Biggest usability thing for me is not being able to read the caption when mousing over an arrow. Pretty irritating.