The Internet is a Series of Tubes

by  Alex Tabarrok in

Turns out the internet really is a series of pipes  tubes. Here is a picture from one of Google’s Data Centers.

Here is a view inside the Douglas County, Georgia data center. The colorful pipes sent and receive water for cooling the facility. Bikes are the preferred method of transportation inside the massive center.

The pipes are for running cooling water. Here is another data center:

Inside the Council Bluffs, Iowa data center there is over 115,000 square feet of space. These servers allow services like YouTube and search to work efficiently.

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