tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post114563974844172897..comments2024-03-24T10:38:16.997-07:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: 100k+ new servers per quarter at Google?Greg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1145796887157419532006-04-23T05:54:00.000-07:002006-04-23T05:54:00.000-07:00That sounds about right. I read that myspace was a...That sounds about right. I read that myspace was adding 100 new servers per day - and that waas about 5 months ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1145666604785577952006-04-21T17:43:00.000-07:002006-04-21T17:43:00.000-07:00From what I've heard, this speculative article fro...From what I've heard, this speculative article from Robert Cringely is not far off...<BR/><BR/>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051124.html<BR/><BR/>Long story short, they are setting up many shippable server clusters to deploy at various internet bottlenecks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1145647743992299022006-04-21T12:29:00.000-07:002006-04-21T12:29:00.000-07:00Could be. There is a big assumption here that mos...Could be. There is a big assumption here that most of the capex is for servers. As far as I know, the details of that capex spending have not been disclosed.<BR/><BR/>As for whether that capex could be going mostly for acquiring property and physical plant, I thought that Google leased their datacenters. Is that not true?Greg Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1145646071489406922006-04-21T12:01:00.000-07:002006-04-21T12:01:00.000-07:00Greg, couldn't a significant portion of the $345M ...Greg, couldn't a significant portion of the $345M be going toward the cost of property acquisition and physical plant construction for their datacenters? Even 100K strikes me as a remarkably high number.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com