That's wrong answer.
Yes, Google don't buy PC servers.
However they don't make anything. They buy CPUs. Including IBM POWER (a
lot of).
They produce their own *cheap servers* even with no enclosure. Obviously
(or not) they don't produce motherboards... but IBM don't do it as well.
They also buy hard drives, but they don't produce them.
Regarding mainframe - they simply don't need big reliable machine,
because they built their infrastructure on plenty of small, cheap and
not very reliable PCs.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 24.10.2025 o 15:37, Peter Vander Woude pisze:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:54:48 -0500, Jon Perryman <[email protected]> wrote:
The answer to the question below is that Google does not buy it's server or
storage hardware from others. The last I heard, they built their own servers
and unless they have changed their process, they build their own disk storage
subsystems also.
How is it that Google runs 5M servers yet not one of them is a z16 or z17?
Google provides cloud services on horribly designed software. Google provides
AI in a horribly configured environment when a z17 is technically simalar to
the El Capitan supercomputer.
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