Aside from its test drives and simulations, Google has encircled its software with firewalls, backup systems, and redundant power supplies.
The buildings were designed to generate lower environmental impacts, but not to respond to the impacts of the environment" — for example, by having redundant power systems.
Implicit in the emphasis on redundant power supplies and backup systems is a skepticism that the deregulated electrical industry will be able to supply all the power the companies will need on a reliable basis.
"I would rather have it in a building that I own, because I can create the best environmental conditions, with backup cooling and redundant power," Art Brings, the chief facilities officer, said on a recent tour.
In computer sales you need to know one end of your terabytes and the other of your redundant power supply; in social care you need to know your attachment theory from your Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
On Monday, he gave a reporter a tour of the prototype system, which sits in a container case adjacent to a Sun office building here, connected to two large fire hoses for water cooling and 500 kilowatts of redundant power.
Although it will incorporate the former warehouse, the building, to be called the TechCenter @ Newburgh, will include features that high-technology tenants demand, like high ceilings, widely spaced columns and provisions for robust air conditioning, redundant power and telecommunications connections.
It may seem counterintuitive for companies to pointedly search for office space near the water, but the 500,000-square-foot 500,000-square-foot 500,000-square-footwport is a hybuildingatcenter and office building that offers tenants backup generators, redundant power and an extensive fiber optic network.
2× 920 W redundant power supplies.
Every CIO has to build a redundant power plant.
