[squarecat]

Understood, which is why Google, if it's going to all the effort of setting up open door press days, is missing a huge opportunity by not employing hypervisualized metaphors/exhibits to demonstrate how truly amazing a modern data center is, not to mention reinforcing how critical it is for so much of what the average user does every day.

They should probably contract a couple Disney Imagineers and do it right. They could benefit from the the humanizing effects and even create a quirky, niche destination in the process. Hell, throw in an "Android Experience" showroom and it'd probably even have legitimate commercial value.

[rpearl]

It would all be fake. What's the point?

[jodrellblank]

Just think how much wasted effort and embarrassment you could have saved Pixar, Disney / Disneyworld, HollyWood, Shakespeare and JK Rowling if you'd been there to point this out to them.

[rpearl]

you're totally right, industrial data centers are the same as entertainment venues and should be combined.

[plywoodtrees]

Conceptual cartoony view of how a data centre works: http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend