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Google opens its Bay View HQ, the first campus it designed itself


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Google has finally opened its Bay View campus to employees almost 10 years after revealing its initial plans for the new facility back in 2013. It's the first Google campus the company has developed itself, and it definitely doesn't look like the traditional offices you're used to. One of the first things you'll probably notice about the new HQ, for instance, is its roof that looks like dragonscales from afar. 

This "dragonscale skin" design is actually made up of 90,000 silver solar panels capable of generating almost seven megawatts of energy, or up to 40 percent of the new offices' energy needs. Wind farms nearby will also provide the energy needed to run the all-electric HQ that has two kitchens equipped with electric equipment instead of gas. In addition, the campus has automated window shades to let a lot of natural lighting in during the day and a ventilation system that uses 100 percent outside air.

The new campus also houses the largest geothermal installation in North America that will help heat and cool the campus without the use of fossil fuels. It even reduces the amount of water used for cooling by 90 percent. This geothermal pile system uses pumps to absorb heat from the ground during wintertime and to send heat into the ground in the summer.

Google only recently started transitioning its workforce to a hybrid work schedule that would require employees to work in its offices a few times a week. The Bay View HQ's natural lighting, greenery and wide open spaces could help make the transition easier for people who've been working from home these past two years. 

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Visitors not allowed. Okkasari allow chesaka poyi choosi vastha access unna areas. 
 

Food ki aithey toooo many options

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3 minutes ago, Vaampire said:

Visitors not allowed. Okkasari allow chesaka poyi choosi vastha access unna areas. 
 

Food ki aithey toooo many options

:#<  job reference pls.

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Just now, Spartan said:

:#<  job reference pls.

Ey uko vayya. Google ki kooda reference aaa. Linkedin lo recruiter ni goku. Full responsive. 
i dont work there

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Just now, Vaampire said:

Ey uko vayya. Google ki kooda reference aaa. Linkedin lo recruiter ni goku. Full responsive. 
i dont work there

sSa_j@il ok

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