Number of Real Physical Google Data Centers

Not those you usually know.

[fischermx]

I'm a bit fed up of those PR checkers website which call every single IP address originated from Google a "Data Center". There are one that even suggest something like 700. ROFL!
Almost every average Joe webmaster should know, or suppose, that most of them are just really http servers pointing to mostly the same data.

Now, I'd like to know how many known Real physical datacenters Google has. And for this I mean places, physical building where google have say 5,000-10,000 computers to store a copy of crawl data.
Anyone?

[fischermx]

Just a few examples, please, you don't need to know it all!
Ok, the one in Montain View, I'm not even sure if they have a Data Center there, besides the offices.
What else?

[mojomike]

from what I have read.
there is at least 5.

Newark NJ ( I saw the Google cage, so I don't know if it's a meet-me junction or data center )
Washington state ( the one being built next to MS center for cheap power or it could be Oregon.)
California has 2 I think
Chicago has 1

I hope this helps a bit

[whoisgregg]

This New York Times article suggests they have at least 25 locations but also explains how difficult it is to determine the true number...

Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power [nytimes.com]

Today even the closest Google watchers have lost precise count of how big the system is. The best guess is that Google now has more than 450,000 servers spread over at least 25 locations around the world.

[fischermx]

Thanks a lot for those numbers and the article!

Now, I can laugh harder about that site that "digs" PR on +700 "data centers". :)

[jimbeetle]

There have also been recent reports about the possibility of a new one going up in either North or South Carolina. Or, at least, both states bidding for one, not quite sure what G's position is. Almost seems redundant with the new one so close by in Atlanta. Might be that its East Coast traffic is that heavy?

[jimbeetle]

Well, it's official, you can add one more (real) data center, coming soon to Lenoir, NC.

[mercurynews.com...]

[g1smd]

Each class-C block of computers is one "block" (e.g. 66.102.9.nnn is one block).

Google has at least 41 active blocks.

There are several dozen IP addresses active inside each "block". They usually end in... 17, 18, 19, 44, 80, 81, 83, 84, 91, 93, 95, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 107, 115, 133, 147, 184, 189, or 214.

There may be more than one class-C "block" housed inside some Google buildings.

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

Google has at least a dozen datacentre locations arourd the world.

[g1smd]

Possibly also:

Australia?
Japan
France?
Ireland
Belgium or Netherlands
Switzerland

[fischermx]

g1smd:

Thanks for your contribution. It seems you know about the topic. But why you called "datacenters" to those IPs listed in the quoted threads!? LOL!

Yet, later in that thread you explained it in respond to WW_Watcher, who is doing the same claim as I am now.

[ciscoforum]

Anyone remember those server filled shipping containers that they have? Could bump up the locations abit.

[activeco]

Here are Google offices and data centers [google.com] around the world.
Here are current US data center openings [google.com].
If you have time, maybe you can dig around to find out more.
E.g.:
[google.de...]

Actually whenever they mention "hardware" in the opening, datacenter would be a good bet.

e.g.
[google.ca...]
where one of the requirements is "3+ years experience working in datacenters and building out server farm infrastructure."

Not really the recommended way, (many dc don't have current openings) but you'll get the idea.

[g1smd]

>> But why you called "datacenters" to those IPs listed in the quoted threads!? <<

The threads are a voyage of discovery.

We didn't start out knowing the answers!