The Google Modular Data Center was a modular data center built from a set of

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s, and used by

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to house some of its servers. The

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were rumored to cost US$600 million each, and use from 50 to 103

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s of electricity. They housed the computing resources that comprise the Google platform.

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was reported in November 2005 to be working on their own shipping container datacenter. Google's patent on the concept was still pushed through the patent system and was successfully issued in October 2007. In 2009 Google announced that their first container based data center has been in production since 2005.

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Going Green at Google

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