I'm very pleased to see that my friend and colleague
+Urs Hölzle has been elected a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, for "contributions to the design, operation, and energy efficiency of large-scale data centers."
Urs has had tremendous influence on Google's operations, and it is his technical work and leadership at the datacenter and infrastructure level that allows Google to operate our myriad services used by more than a billion people (working with many others, of...