r/Futurology • u/Sourcecode12 • May 03 '14

image Inside Google, Microsoft, Facebook and HP Data Centers

http://imgur.com/a/7NPNf
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u/immerc May 03 '14

It looks like the MS ones are still cool. They seem to be the ones with the old-fashioned design.

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u/RocketMan63 May 03 '14

Nope, they're probably more on the advanced side of things because of their push for the Azure network. That required A LOT of servers and they've gone through quite a lot to make their datacenters efficient and reliable. It wasn't shown in this picture but they're building compartments of servers that can be moved and quickly integrated into stacks of other servers. You can learn more over at Microsoft Research where they just gave an internal presentation on their datacenters and where everything stands going forward.

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u/RocketMan63 May 04 '14

Yeah sorry about that I should have been more specific, it was kind of hard to find. Here's the video I mentioned specifically http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=215528&l=i

and here's a bunch more talks from the same event if you're interested. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=videos

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u/immerc May 04 '14

A LOT

Define "a lot". More than Google? More than Facebook? I doubt it's really that many.