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Interesting NYT magazine article about datacenters and the infrastructure that runs the internet.

Tukwila is less a building than a machine for computing. “You look at a typical building,” Manos explained, “and the mechanical and electrical infrastructure is probably below 10 percent of the upfront costs. Whereas here it’s 82 percent of the costs.” Little thought is given to exterior appearances; even the word “architecture” in the context of a data center can be confusing: it could refer to the building, the network or the software running on the servers.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 6:05 pm and is filed under Globalization, Media, Tech.