Every time you use a Google product, you’re connecting to one of its data centers located around the world.
Google has been notoriously secretive about it, but recently it’s been sharing some photos and videos of its state-of-the-art data centers.
Take a tour of Google’s data centers below:
Google has data centers in 14 different locations, including The Netherlands, Singapore, and Chile. This is the one in Finland.Data centers basically power all of Google's services, so they need to run 24 hours a day.
At first, they may look just like any other Google office.
But once you get to the back, you'll see racks and racks of servers and computer storage, like this.
These servers handle everything from processing billions of searches and hosting Youtube videos, to protecting your email from virus attacks.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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