We spend so much time using the web that it’s sometimes easy to forget that the internet is a very real, very tangible thing. We all talk about “the cloud”, but the backbone of internet services – data centers – are not exactly fluffy and white. They are very large, very advanced facilities owned and operated by large companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook.
There are a number of videos out there that show the inner workings of a data center, but we thought we’d highlight a couple of the more interesting, better-prduced oens to give you an idea of the incredible engineering and design that goes in to making the cloud stay up in the air:
A Look at Microsoft Datacenters:
Google Data Center Security:
