Google turns its data centers into an art show

17.10.2012
Google is offering a look inside its data centers with a series of stunning photographs that would be more at home in an art gallery than a technology manual.

Under the heading "Where the Internet Lives," Google published Wednesday that depict some of the technology, people and locations that keep its services running.

There are one or two insights into how its data centers operate, like the shot of a at a facility in South Carolina, where robotic arms store the tapes and retrieve them when they're needed.

But most of the show is eye candy for tech enthusiasts, showing abstract patterns of , Ethernet cables gathered into , and lit with , like dance clubs for robots.

Google hired photographer Connie Zhou, a Shanghai-born artist who specializes in architectures and interiors, to shoot the images.

The pictures provide "a never-before-seen look at the technology, the people and the places that keep Google running," Google said in a .