Google lets the world peek at the many tubes that form a critical part of its search engine infrastructure — functional and pretty too. From the Independent: They are the cathedrals of the information age – with the colour scheme of an adventure playground. For the first time, Google has allowed cameras into its high security data centres – the beating hearts of its global network that allow the web giant to process 3 billion internet searches every day. Only a small band of Google employees have ever been inside the doors of the data centres, which are hidden away in remote parts of North America, Belgium and Finland. Their workplaces glow with the blinking lights of LEDs on internet servers reassuring technicians that all is well with the web, and hum to the sound of hundreds of giant fans and thousands of gallons of water, that stop the whole thing overheating. “Very few people have stepped inside Google’s data centers , and for good reason: our first… Read more