Googleplex merupakan kantor pusat perusahaan Google, Inc., terletak di 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway di Mountain View, Santa Clara, California, dekat San Jose. Nama Googleplex adalah permainan kata, sebuah portmanteau dari Google dan complex, dan merujuk pada googolplex, nama yang diberikan pada angka berjumlah besar.
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Fasilitas dan Sejarah
Empat bangunan inti, seluas 506,317 ft² (47,038 m²), dibangun untuk dan ditempati oleh Silicon Graphics. Kemudian disewa oleh Google pada 2003. Bulan Juni 2006, Google membeli properti ini dari Silicon Graphics senilai $319 juta.

Letak
Googleplex terletak antara Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, dan Shoreline Boulevard di utara Mountain View, California dekat rawa Shoreline Park. Karyawannya tinggal di San Francisco atau wilayah Timur.

Bangunan dekat Googleplex meliputi ALZA Plaza dan Mozilla Foundation di barat; Shoreline Amphitheatre di utara; Intuit di baratlaut dan Century Theatres, komplek penelitian Microsoft Corporation di Silicon Valley, dan Museum Sejarah Komputer di selatan. Lapangan Terbang Moffett terletak di timur.

Bulan September 2007, NASA menyatakan bahwa para pendiri Google telah membuka akses ke Lapangan Terbang Moffett untuk Boeing 767 mereka dan dua Gulfstream V dengan membayar $1.3 juta dan membolehkan NASA menggunakan pesawat itu untuk kepentingan penelitian.

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The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose. The name Googleplex is a play on words, being a portmanteau of Google and complex, and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 10^googol.

Facilities and History

The four core buildings, totaling 506,317 ft² (47,038 m²), were built for and originally occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26-acre (110,000 m²) site that contains Charleston Park, a 5-acre (20,000 m²) public park; improved access to Permanente Creek; and public trails that connect the corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail. The project, launched in 1994 to reclaim a former industrial brownfield, was a creative collaboration between SGI, STUDIOS Architecture in San Francisco, SWA Group of San Francisco and Sausalito, and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the City of Mountain View. The objective was to develop in complementary fashion the privately-owned corporate headquarters and adjoining public greenspace. Key design decisions placed parking for nearly 2000 cars underground, enabling SWA to integrate the two open spaces with water features, shallow pools, fountains, pathways, and plazas. The project was completed in 1997.

The ASLA noted in 1999 that the SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses, challenging conventional thinking about private and public space.

The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003. In June 2006, Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics' properties, including the Googleplex, for $319 million.

Although the buildings are of relatively low height, the complex covers a large area. The interior of the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls. The lobby contains a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries. The facilities include a gym (Building 40), free laundry rooms (Buildings 40 and 42), two small swimming pools, a sand volleyball court, and eleven cafeterias of diverse selection. Google has even installed replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton.

In late 2006 and early 2007 the company installed a series of solar panels, capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At the time, it was believed to be the largest corporate installation in the United States. About 30 percent of the Googleplex's electricity needs will be fulfilled by this project, with the remainder being purchased. About one third of the panels will be in the form of "solar trees" mounted on poles above parking lots, with the remainder placed on rooftops.

The solar panel project went online on 18 June 2007. As of 21 June 2007 Google has installed over 90% of the 9,212 solar panels that comprise the 1.6 megawatt project.

Location

The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees living in San Francisco or the East Bay may take a wifi-enabled Google subsidized shuttle to and from work. It is powered by domestically grown and processed biodiesel.

Neighbors of the Googleplex include ALZA Plaza and the Mozilla Foundation to the west; Shoreline Amphitheatre to the north; Intuit to the northwest and Century Theatres, Microsoft Corporation's Silicon Valley research complex, and the Computer History Museum to the south. Moffett Field lies nearby to the east.

In September 2007, NASA revealed that Google's founders had secured access to Moffett Field for their Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream Vs by paying a $1.3 million fee and allowing NASA to use the aircraft for scientific expeditions.