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# Post by [Stefan Wintermeyer](https://vutuv.de/wintermeyer) · 2026-09-24

Luiz André Barroso helped redefine how computing infrastructure is built: instead of treating a datacenter as thousands of individual machines, treat the whole building as one enormous computer.

This article tells the story behind that idea, Google’s warehouse-scale computing, and how Barroso’s work on energy efficiency, hardware, software, and system design helped lay the foundations for modern cloud computing — and ultimately the massive AI datacenters they are building today.

https://andreybleme.com/2026-09-22/luiz-andre-barroso/

Tags: #cloudcomputing, #datacenters, #ComputerArchitecture

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