Comments on: Google’s 10 rules for designing data centers

By: Thomas Martin

Thomas Martin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:06:33 +0000

I’m surprised Google hasn’t built a data center in Western New York. It stays cold roughly 7 months a year, bordered by 2 of the great lakes, and a hydro-electric plant fed by Niagara Falls. Maybe the politics and taxes are keeping them away? I know Yahoo has already run all the fiber-optics. I worked on that data center.

By: Alexander Haislip

Alexander Haislip — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:48:22 +0000

Really nice article, Ucilia.

By: Tom Krazit

Tom Krazit — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:17:39 +0000

Thanks for flagging. #1 is a bug that is driving us crazy, and not a deliberate design decision. #2 was a typo, and both are fixed.

By: ezrakilty

ezrakilty — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:00:53 +0000

Ezra’s rules for designing web pages: 1) Put all the body text in the same size. Don’t arbitrarily set items 3 and 5 in a smaller font, as this makes it hard to scan and leads readers to wonder what distinction is being conveyed. 2) Use good grammar, especially in bold-faced text, or confusion can arise. For example. if the item reads “Great is just isn’t good enough,” should we understand that great IS or ISN’T good enough?

By: richardallenhay

richardallenhay — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:16:13 +0000

The first rule of data centers is you don’t talk about data centers.