{"id":35151,"date":"2012-10-17T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_the_brain_of_the_beast_google_reveals_the_computers_behind_the_cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:28:09","slug":"npr_the_brain_of_the_beast_google_reveals_the_computers_behind_the_cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35151","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) The Brain Of The Beast: Google Reveals The Computers Behind The Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the ephemeral &#8220;cloud&#8221; of cloud computing, the network we use for everything from checking our email to streamlining our health care system, there lies a very tangible and very big computer infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>But besides a glimpse at some of the hardware in 2009, there has been little information about Google&#8217;s data centers, the warehoused collections of servers that have given the company the foundation for its vast Internet operations.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the company is throwing open the gates to the world \u201d\u201d digitally, of course. It has released a site featuring photos of facilities from Belgium to Finland to Iowa and launched a guided Street View tour of one in Lenoir, N.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2012\/10\/17\/163031136\/the-brain-of-the-beast-google-reveals-the-computers-behind-the-cloud\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the ephemeral &#8220;cloud&#8221; of cloud computing, the network we use for everything from checking our email to streamlining our health care system, there lies a very tangible and very big computer infrastructure. But besides a glimpse at some of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35151\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,589,149,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}