Techies will find this mesmerizing... a street-view tour of one o' Google's data centers, this one bein' in North Carolina (which explains the NASCAR motif found throughout). From an LA Times article:
Hell, even non-techies should find the tour supremely interesting and it's pretty easy to kill an hour or two playing with this. I know **I** killed a lot o' time there but your mileage may vary. I'll say one thing: Google's data center is head and shoulders above the EDS data centers I saw back in the day. But that was a long, long time ago.
Google also expanded its StreetView feature to give a tour inside its North Carolina data center. The tour includes a look at Google employees' awesome lounge area, the various parts of the facility and even some Star Wars characters, as one user on Google+ found.Here's a screen shot:
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Hell, even non-techies should find the tour supremely interesting and it's pretty easy to kill an hour or two playing with this. I know **I** killed a lot o' time there but your mileage may vary. I'll say one thing: Google's data center is head and shoulders above the EDS data centers I saw back in the day. But that was a long, long time ago.
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