Re:Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)
by mike_d on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:25AM
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Google doesn't really have a concept of datacenters internally. In simplified terms everything runs on a borg cell, which usually but not always exists in a single building. Within a region one of your GCP services could be running on one cell, with another service running on another in a different building. If a failure happens or maintenance needs to be done, a cell could be drained to another one in the same region.
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Re:Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)
by dekhn on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @10:39AM
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Google has "data centers" internally. People argue about the various definitions but a DC is usually one or a few buildings containing several clusters, each of which is fairly "close" to all its components.