[FairfieldLife] Interesting Google Factoid

[Rick Archer]

I ran into a Google employee last night, while travelling, who told me that
Google now has nearly a million servers. So many that about 12,000 fail
every day and are promptly replaced. They are networked in such a way that
their work is distributed and the failure of a small percentage doesn't
degrade their overall performance. Google builds their own computers out of
standard components and as such, is one of the world's largest computer
manufacturers.