Striking murals turn Google data centers into pieces of art

Google processes more than 30 billion queries a day and each one at one point travels through a faceless data center with seemingly endless rows of servers.

To bring some curb appeal to the Internet's so-called "homes," Google has tapped artists to paint murals on four data centers, hoping to expand the project to even more. So far two centers, in Oklahoma and Belgium, have gotten facelifts, Google announced this week. 

"It may look like a giant canvas, but this is a very special place that plays a special role in the operation of the Internet, which ultimately plays a role in the lives of a lot of people and mine, too," Oli-B, an artist who reimagined the cloud on the exterior of a data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium, said in a video describing the project. Read more...