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Presumably that Google data center does a lot of compute intensive, non search related stuff - like GCP for one.
by wz1000 6y ago
Presumably that Google data center does a lot of compute intensive, non search related stuff - like GCP for one.
- jeffbee 6y agoAnother thing that people persistently misunderstand is the scale relationship between GCP and the rest of Google.
- wz1000 6y agoEven if all you say is true and it is truly impossible for the government to replicate any of what Google does, the point is moot. If the government is going to appropriate Google's index, might as well appropriate the datacenters too. Really, whats Google going to do with them once search is gone? According to you, it is the only thing they have have running there.
- jimbokun 6y agoMight as well appropriate the engineers, too, and chain them to their desks and force them to keep everything working.
- wz1000 6y agoTruly an absurd comment. The US government is the largest employer in the country, with something in the order of 10 million employees. Are they all slaves chained to their desks?
- rossjudson 6y agoIt also does a lot of storage intensive, non search related stuff, like Google Cloud Storage. Every Google data center does...everything.