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The Googleplex is one of the company's 23 U.S. and Canadian locations. Google also maintains 23 European locations, 14 Asia/Pacific locations, 5 Middle East locations, and 3 Latin American locations.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html Google Offices] from the company's website. Retrieved 2009-11-07.</ref>{{update after|2010|11|7}}
The Googleplex is one of the company's 23 U.S. and Canadian locations. Google also maintains 23 European locations, 14 Asia/Pacific locations, 5 Middle East locations, and 3 Latin American locations.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html Google Offices] from the company's website. Retrieved 2009-11-07.</ref>{{update after|2010|11|7}}


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== Facilities and history ==
[[File:Googleplexlobby-adjusted.jpg|thumb|Entrance to lobby of Building 40]]
[[File:Googleplexsouthsidesecondangle.jpg|thumb|The south side of the Googleplex]]
The four core buildings, totaling {{convert|47038|m2|sp=us}}, were built for and originally occupied by [[Silicon Graphics, Inc.|Silicon Graphics]] (SGI). The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger {{convert|26|acre|m2|sing=on}} site that contains Charleston Park, a {{convert|5|acre|m2|sing=on}} public park; improved access to Permanente Creek; and public trails that connect the corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail. The project, launched in 1994 to reclaim a former industrial [[brownfield]], was a creative collaboration between SGI, SWA Group of San Francisco, Sausalito, and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the City of Mountain View.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} The objective was to develop in complementary fashion the privately-owned corporate headquarters and adjoining public greenspace. Key design decisions placed parking for nearly 2000 cars underground, enabling SWA to integrate the two open spaces with water features, shallow pools, fountains, pathways, and plazas. The project was completed in 1997. The [[ASLA]] noted in 1999 that the SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses, challenging conventional thinking about private and public space.

STUDIOS Architecture was the executive architect for the original SGI campus, and provided both interior architecture and base building design.

The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003.<ref>{{cite news
| first=Stefanie
| last=Olsen
| title=Google's movin' on up with Sujeet Kumar and Manohar Patti
| url=http://news.com.com/Googles+movin+on+up/2110-1032_3-1025111.html
| work=CNET News.com
| publisher=CNET Networks, Inc.
| date=2003-07-13
| accessdate=2007-01-04 }}</ref>
In June 2006, Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics' properties, including the Googleplex, for $319 million.<ref>{{cite news
| first=Elinor
| last=Mills
| title=Google buying its Mountain View, Calif., property
| url=http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6083899.html
| work=CNET News.com
| publisher=CNET Networks, Inc.
| date=2006-06-14
| accessdate=2007-01-04 }}</ref><ref>
{{cite news
| url= http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-15621514_ITM
| title = Google to purchase Mountain View buildings
| work= San Jose Mercury News
| date= June 14, 2006
| publisher= [[AccessMyLibrary]]
| accessdate=2009-11-07
| first=Katherine
| last=Conrad
}}</ref>

Since the buildings are of relatively low height, the complex sprawls out over a large amount of land. The interior of the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls. The lobby <!-- which lobby? --> contains a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries. The facilities include a gym (Building 40), free laundry rooms (Buildings 40 and 42), two small swimming pools, multiple sand volleyball courts, and eighteen cafeterias of diverse selection. Google has also installed replicas of [[SpaceShipOne]] and a dinosaur skeleton.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Weinberg
| first = Nathan
| coauthors =
| title = Yes, Google Has A Dinosaur
| work =
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = google.blognewschannel.com
| date = 2007-01-22
| url = http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/01/22/yes-google-has-a-dinosaur/
| accessdate = 2007-01-23 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| last = Mohney
| first = Chris
| title = 25 things to see at the Googleplex before you die
| work = [[Valleywag]]
| publisher = [[Gawker Media]]
| date = 2007-02-06
| url = http://valleywag.gawker.com/tech/google/25-things-to-see-at-the-googleplex-before-you-die-234103.php
| accessdate = 2009-08-08}}
</ref>

Since 2007 the site has featured a series of solar panels, covering the rooftops of eight buildings and two solar carports capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At the time of installation Google believed it to be the [[List of rooftop photovoltaic installations|largest in the United State]]s among corporations. The panels provide the power needed for 30% of the peak electricity demand in their solar-powered buildings.<ref>{{cite web
| url= http://www.google.com/corporate/green/footprint.html
| title= Reducing our Footprint | publisher= Google
| accessdate=2010-09-30
| quote=IIn Mountain View, CA, for example, we currently have a 1.6 megawatt solar power system that generates 30% of the peak power necessary to fuel the buildings on which they are located.}}</ref>

Four 100[[kilowatt|kW]] [[Bloom Energy Server]]s were shipped to Google in July 2008, making Google the first customer of Bloom Energy.<ref>http://www.bloomenergy.com/about/company-history/</ref><ref>http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Bloom-Energy-Revealed/</ref>

There is a giant green statue of the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] logo outside of Building 44 (1635 Charleston Road) on the Google campus (It can be seen using Google Maps Satellite on 45° mode). {{Coord|37.420269|N|122.083949|W|type:landmark|display=inline}}


== Location ==
== Location ==

Revision as of 12:22, 8 April 2011

This article is about the headquarters of Google. For the number, see googolplex.
Googleplex
One of the entrance signs at the Googleplex
Map
Built1997
LocationMountain View, California
IndustryInternet, computer software
ProductsSee list of Google products
Address1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose. "Googleplex" is a portmanteau of Google and complex, and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol.

The Googleplex is one of the company's 23 U.S. and Canadian locations. Google also maintains 23 European locations, 14 Asia/Pacific locations, 5 Middle East locations, and 3 Latin American locations.[1][needs update]

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Location

Googleplex courtyard

The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees living in San Francisco, the East Bay, or South Bay may take a free wifi-enabled Google shuttle to and from work. The shuttles are powered by biodiesel.[2]

Neighbors of the Googleplex include Shoreline Amphitheatre to the north; Intuit to the northwest and Century Theatres, Microsoft Corporation's Silicon Valley research complex, and the Computer History Museum to the south. Moffett Field lies nearby to the east.

Other uses of the word

"Googleplex" is also part of a title referring to a minor character from the 1979 book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, a powerful computer called the "Googleplex Star Thinker".

References

  1. ^ Google Offices from the company's website. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  2. ^ Spivack, Cari (2004-09-13). "Worth the drive". Official Google Blog. Google, Inc. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
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