They also operate equipment at dozens to hundreds of smaller locations around the world. In addition, they appear to operate a number of other large datacenters (sometimes through subsidiary corporations), including: On their website, Data center locations Google acknowledges that they have datacenters in the following locations: Data Center Knowledge: Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Billion Investment in 3 Months Their biggest data centers cost half a billion to a billion dollars, so they can't have more than 20 or so of those. Google's aggregate capital expenditures–spending on building stuff I'm excluding the cost of an extremely expensive building they bought in New York.-adds up to somewhere over $12 billion dollars. Let's take a closer look at Google's computing platform. Microsoft (They have a million servers, Data Center Knowledge: [Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers although no one seems sure why.).Facebook (They're on the right scale and growing fast, but still playing catch-up.).Amazon (They're huge, but probably not as big as Google.).Here's my short list of the top contenders: There are only a handful of organizations who might plausibly have more storage capacity or a larger server infrastructure. Google is very secretive about its operations, so it's hard to say for sure. Google almost certainly has more data storage capacity than any other organization on Earth. If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be? What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is out! Order here! ◀︎ ▶︎ Google's Datacenters on Punch Cards

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