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Two: Inside the Walls

What’s it like inside a data center? Let’s take a tour. But first: the scrappy history of how these warehouse-scale computers came to be.

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What’s it like inside a data center? Let’s take a tour. But first: the scrappy history of how these warehouse-scale computers came to be.

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Where the Internet Lives

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