200,000 Google Servers
This Bloomberg story (in LATimes.com): Google Is Reportedly Switching to AMD states that Google has 200,000 servers in it’s network.
[tease]
Google, which has more than 200,000 servers, has started to buy Advanced Micro’s Opteron processors with almost all new purchases, Morgan Stanley analyst Mark Edelstone said. He raised his earnings estimates for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Advanced Micro.
“Most of Google’s near-term server purchases will use AMD’s Opteron for the first time,” Edelstone said. Google “will help AMD to enjoy a significant sequential increase in their server business in the first quarter.”
I knew Google had lots and lots of servers, and that they must be adding a bunch of new ones daily. But 200,000 servers blows my mind.
Now we need to figure out how many servers the other Internet behemoths operate:
Amazon
Yahoo!
eBay
Microsoft.
It will be fun to see if I have the correct rank order in my list.
Whisper (or shout) if you can guide us toward the Truth, I’ll even settle for lower case “truth.”
[via tech.memeorandum]