How many servers does Google have?

How many servers uses Google as well as large corporations, including dedicated hosting servers?

All companies do not deliver the numbers, some can only be estimated (as of mid 2009).

  1. Google: more than 1 000 000 (estimated in January 2010).
  2. Microsoft: 300 000.
  3. Intel: 100 000.
  4. Facebook: 60 000 (30 000 claimed in November 2009).
  5. Amazon: unknown.
  6. Yahoo: 50000 (estimated).
  7. Godaddy: unknown, probably around 50 000.
  8. OVH: 80 000 dedicated servers (May 2010).
  9. 1&1 claims 70 000, that can include virtual servers.
  10. Rackspace: 50 000.
  11. Ebay: estimated 50 000.
  12. The Planet: 48 000.
  13. Akamai: 48 000.
  14. Verizon: 25 000.
  15. Time Warner: 25 000.
  16. AT&T: 20 000.

Not surprisingly, Google reaches the top of the list.. The number of servers known was 450 000 in 2006 to 25 data centers while the number of data centers in 2009 was 50.

Datacenters

Google explains how it works to reduce energy consumption in its datacenters.

They are specially designed to use far less energy than typical centers.

" In the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than we will use to answer your query "

Role of a datacenter

A data center includes computers and telecommunications. All kinds of large firms may have such a facility, but Google, to answer to requests from hundreds of millions of users, put up numbers centers throughout the world.

The center must have the following parts:
- Servers. Computers with fast and secure storage.
- Telecommunications connected to Internet, including routers and switches.
- Air conditioning.
- Generator for rescue power.
- System of fire prevention.
- Extinguishing fire based on different processes to remove oxygen without damage to equipment.
- Ventilation, including a raised floor for air circulation.
- Safeguards against intruders, based on surveillance cameras.

Google's datacenters

Google had in 2008 near 40 datacenters, implemented primarily in the United States and Europe.

With each new construction, the company strives to improve the environmental quality of the installation:
- Reduction of energy consumption. Use of renewable energy alternatives.
- Recovery of 100% of the water used for cooling.
- Recycling 68% of used equipment.

How many servers in datacenters?

The exact number of server is not notified, but we know that Google has established an infrastructure for 1 000 000 servers.

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