How and where does Google store their data?
That doesnt mean we cannot estimate it though.
One benefit of a company being public, is the information that becomes public as a result.
Their most expensive data center has a cost tag of around half a billion dollars.
By rough calculations, its safe to assume they would contain around 20 data centers.
SInce we cant access any of the data centers directly, we look at their energy consumption.
The company disclosed that in 2010 they consumed an average of 258 megawatts of power.
The result 215 watts per server.
Calculate the storage
Now this number doesnt necessarily mean theyre all relevant to us.
If that number still feels too high, let us remember that we havent even considered cold storage yet.
Source:Quora
Read More
source: www.techworm.net
