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   The Anti-Mike (profile), Dec 31st, 2009 @ 3:02pm

   
   

   I don't think that Google's data center is a "colo" (ie, co-location). I think it is their data center exclusively.

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   Mike Masnick (profile), Dec 31st, 2009 @ 3:16pm

   
   

   I don't think that Google's data center is a "colo" (ie, co-location). I think it is their data center exclusively.
   
   Indeed. But, no one said otherwise. The only mention of colo was in the second video, which is a colo.

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   Jon Bane (profile), Dec 31st, 2009 @ 3:43pm

   
   

   Please Don't Feed The Trolls.

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   Nitpickers Of The World Unite

   

   Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Dec 31st, 2009 @ 5:16pm

   
   

   When a noun is used as an adjective, I thought the usual English convention is to use the singular form, not the plural one. Thus, “car yard” for a yard selling cars, even though they’re probably offering more than one for sale. And “animal hospital”, even though the hospital more than likely is treating more than one animal.

   Therefore, “data centre” should be “datum centre”. And “multimedia database” should be “multimedium datumbase”!

   So there!

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   Chargone (profile), Dec 31st, 2009 @ 7:45pm

   
   

   database is a compound word, and both of it's parts are still nouns, so there's no 'datumbase'. not to mention the singular 'datum' is almost non-existent in common usage, where data is treated more like a mass noun, if memory serves. we do tend to talk about having 300 megabytes of data, after all. (finally, 'data center' is probably an abbreviation, at least in meaning, of 'data processing center', which works completely differently)
   
   also, 'multi' pluralizes 'medium' anyway, so i think there's just some natural agreement going on there.
   
   of course, i may just be feeding trolls here, but this kind of thing interests me :)
   
   
   more on topic: yes, those data centers do look pretty shiny.

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   The Anti-Mike (profile), Jan 2nd, 2010 @ 9:01am

   
   

   Someone has to feed mike!

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   The Anti-Mike (profile), Jan 2nd, 2010 @ 10:21am

   
   

   Sorry, didn't know that the second one wasn't google's, they seem to own everything else ;)

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