During the 2000-2001 era I spend a lot of my time tracking the fiber usage and tenants of the worlds datacenters for a consultancy called Stratsoft. We used the data for big maps as part of our projects with telcom providers like AT&T.

Robert Cringely has a great article about Google snapping up dark fiber and building out datacenters, immensely fascinating and a look into the crystal ball about Google 2.0.

I agree with the author that Google is building for a future they see but most of the rest of us don’t.