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Googleplex Complex, Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, United States
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The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003. In June 2006, Google purchased some Silicon Graphics' properties, including the Googleplex, for $319 million.
Since the buildings are relatively low height, the complex covers a large area. The interior the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls. The lobby contains a piano and a projection 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 diverse selection. Google has also installed replicas SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton.
Since 2007 the site has featured a series solar panels, covering the rotops eight buildings and two solar carports capable producing 1.6 megawatts electricity. At the time installation Google believed it to be the largest in the United States among corporations. The panels provide the power needed for 30% the peak electricity demand in their solar-powered buildings.
Four 100kW Bloom Energy Servers were shipped to Google in July 2008, making Google the first customer Bloom Energy.
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