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Ever wondered what happens when you send an email? Now you can see behind the scenes
with Gmail. The journey begins as soon as you press send. This prompts your message
to travel through cable or DSL lines, to our infrastructure and into our data center.
When your message reaches our data center, we protect it with a wide range of security
measures like security cameras, iris scans and fingerprint scans in our buildings.
Your message then enters the networking room, where our equipment sends it to the Gmail
servers on our server floor.
Our servers work together to process your data, including duplicating your message to
create backups and scanning it for viruses.
All of our servers are shared between our products, which means we can do more with
less Ñ more searches and more Gmail with fewer servers and less energy. We've developed
many innovative practices that help our data centers use 50% less energy than a typical
data center. For instance, we cool our equipment with methods inspired by the natural environment
around us.
When it comes to the energy we do need to power our products and services, we're finding
ways to purchase clean energy from wind farms near our data centers.
We're the only internet company to have eliminated our impact on climate change since
2007. We're also the first major internet services company to gain external certification
for our high environmental standards.
Discover how an email travels from one person to another by exploring images, videos
and more. [j]Visit the Story of Send at http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend