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Obviously it took them a while to get to warehouse scale, but I think they were thinking efficiently from the beginning, like using Legos and cheap racks to hold naked motherboards. http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google%E2%80%99s_Firs...



Here's a photo set of the initial server rack, showing the use of 1/8'' cork sheets to separate circuit boards from contacting each other:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory...




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