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War has Been Declared by Google on Boring Data Center Walls
📅 - Most data centers look rather boring and you wouldn't know what they are unless you recognize the cooling units across one of the walls and you know what they are. Often, data centers are very non-descript and they don't look like much other than a boring building.
Google is changing this by flaunting their huge server buildings. The inside of the buildings are works of art and now they want to make the external walls look far better, too. They are calling this the Data Center Mural Project, which will have four artists paining the walls of data centers. .
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