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According to Techcrunch, Google has an estimated one million servers.*One million.
Imagine that. Imagine fixing that.
Facebook has just raised another $100m in debt, bringing their total to around half a billion. They’re planning to add 50,000 servers over the next year.
50,000 is bad enough. One million is a lot worse. And get this - Google is adding around half a million per year.
So, in 10 years, and all things being equal, Google will have around six million servers.
When it all goes down - and you do know typing ‘Google’ into Google causes the Internet to crash, right? - how the hell would you know where to even start?
And worse, rumour has it getting into Google’s server room is a lot like getting into the core in Galaxy Quest. The video clip of which I’ve been trying to find on Google (and YouTube, which is owned by Google) for the last half hour. But can’t. I think maybe they’re on the right path.
* Wikipedia disputes this. But heck, 450,000 is still a logistical nightmare.
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