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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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In 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers. He devised a way to use low-cost components and energy-saving techniques to distribute Google’s programs across thousands of servers, instead of the traditional method of relying on a few powerful, expensive machines.

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