The Jason Salas Experience

I was impressed to read that Google is worried about the massive amount of power and resources it's consuming due to its massive computing requirements. Wasn't the purpose behind the streamlined design of the company's data center infrastructure such that memory, processing power and server space could be added and activated in plug-and-play fashion to its custom Linux build quickly? One would think the same rapid response implementation of resources would apply for bandwidth.

I did surprise me to see that membership access to Google Analytics had to be cut off temporarily due to overwhelming demand:

Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your name and email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience.

But it's not just current services - think of the expanded need for processing power when/if they start digitizing books, do more with mapping, expand its mobile offering and continue to innovate search facilities by indexing multimedia? It's a Herculian task to manage.