Ever wonder where the search engines store data and how much power it takes to run the data centers that collect and store the data? An enormous amount of data gets collected and stored daily. Tom
Cheredar takes us inside five of America's largest data centers. He tells us it takes 11 diesel generators to power Microsoft’s 700,000-square foot data center in Chicago, which stores data for
XBox Live, the Bing search engine, email service Hotmail, and more than 200 other sites. Twitter’s QTS Metro data center in Georgia supports and stores data for 100 million active users, and it
takes 19 diesel generators.
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