Head Quarter of
Google - Googleplex
The Googleplex,
Google's original and largest corporate campus
Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is
referred to as "the Googleplex", a play on words on the number googolplex and the headquarters itself being
a complexof buildings. The lobby is decorated with a piano, lava lamps, old server clusters, and a projection
of search queries on the wall.
The hallways are full of exercise balls and bicycles. Each
employee has access to the corporate recreation center. Recreational amenities
are scattered throughout the campus and include a workout room with weights and
rowing machines, locker rooms, washers and dryers, a massage room, assorted
video games, table football, a baby grand piano,
a billiard table, and ping pong. In addition to the recreation room, there are
snack rooms stocked with various foods and drinks, with special emphasis placed
on nutrition. Free food is available to employees 24/7, with paid vending
machines prorated
favoring nutritional value.
In 2006, Google moved into 311,000 square feet (28,900 m2)
of office space in New York City, at 111 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. The office was
specially designed and built for Google and houses its largest advertising
sales team, which has been instrumental in securing large partnerships. The
New York headquarters is similar in design and functionality to its Mountain
View headquarters, and includes a game room, micro kitchens, and a video game
area.
As of February 2012, a significant engineering team is based in
New York City, and has been responsible for more than 100 engineering
projects, includingGoogle Maps, Google Spreadsheets. As of
September 2013, Google's East Coastoffice is located at 76 Ninth Ave, New York City, New York.
In November 2006, Google opened offices on Carnegie Mellon's campus inPittsburgh, focusing on shopping-related
advertisement coding andsmartphone applications and programs.
By late 2006, Google also established a new headquarters for its
AdWords division in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Other office
locations in the U.S. includeAnn Arbor, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Boulder, Colorado;Cambridge,
Massachusetts; New York City; San Francisco, California;Seattle, Washington; Reston, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Furthermore, Google has several
international offices.
Google's NYC office building houses its
largest advertising sales team.
In October 2006, the company announced plans to install thousands
of solar panels to provide up
to 1.6 mega watts of electricity, enough to satisfy
approximately 30% of the campus' energy needs.
The system will be the largest solar power system constructed on a U.S. corporate campus and one of the
largest on any corporate site in the world. In addition, Google announced in
2009 that it was deploying herds of goats to keep grassland around the Googleplex short, helping to prevent
the threat from seasonal bush fires while also reducing the carbon footprint of mowing the extensive grounds.
The idea of trimming lawns using goats originated from R. J. Widlar, an engineer who worked for National Semiconductor. Google has
faced accusations in Harper's Magazine of being an
"energy glutton". The company was accused of employing its "Don't be evil" motto and its public energy-saving campaigns to cover up or make up
for the massive amounts of energy its servers require.
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