Simon Willison’s Weblog

26th April 2009 - Link Blog

Google container data center tour (on YouTube). 45,000 servers in 45 shipping containers, along with some serious looking plumbing.

Posted 26th April 2009 at 10:14 pm

Recent articles

Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI - 25th May 2026
Datasette Agent - 21st May 2026
Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything - 19th May 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 26th April 2009.

datacenters 2 google 409 video 33 youtube 57

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe