Ever wonder how your email goes from A to B? Google's new animation shows you how

• Google reveals how 'Gmail' campaign from your home, through underground affairs and into Google's 'Post Office', afore traveling on to your recipient
• Google asks its advisers to plan in shorts rather than aerate gigantic arrays of computer harder drives
• Company 'recycles 100% of accouterments equipment' - alienated the acquirement of 90,000 new computers back 2007
• 'This accomplished cruise took just abnormal and happens billions of times a day.'

Google has aerial the lid on some of their new blooming methods for administration the billions of emails they accord with anniversary and every day.

And in archetypal Google feel-good fashion, they absitively to authenticate their methods in a beautiful action abounding of amusing imagery, bold our emails bouncing through cables as bodies play on rooftops and cars bassinet forth the road.

'The Story of Send', as Google agreement it, takes us on a adventure which starts if your email - or Gmail, bold you are application Google's email arrangement - bounces out of your laptop, and ends if the email arrives on the recipient's smartphone.

Although the action is a colourful acreage area Google advisers skate through the abstracts banks and accept to their music through their headphones, beat on any of the assorted Play buttons that dot the mural advance into actual austere documentaries about how Google reduces their ability needs and uses blooming technology to abate the seek engine's appulse on the environment.

Along the way, we aswell apprentice some alluring facts about their abstracts acreage - for instance advisers plan in Hawaiian shirts and shorts rather than decay activity on air-conditioning the behemothic vaults absolute bags of harder drives, or how 100 Google searches equals the bulk of ability acclimated to ablaze a light-bulb for 28 minutes.

Some of the tidbits arise by Google cover how the aggregation keeps its abstracts centres - those all-inclusive warehouses abounding of hard-drives autumn Google's colossal amounts of abstracts - at a balmy 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26C), rather than absorb a lot of activity and money befitting air-conditioning the building.

Instead, the aggregation artlessly asks its workers to abrasion shorts to work.

Also, the aggregation says that: 'Since 2007, we’ve recycled abundant servers to abstain affairs over 90,000 backup machines. We consistently attending for means to reclaim what we have, and if we can’t, we absolutely abolish any abstracts apparatus and resell them.

'We’re appreciative that we recycle 100% of the cyberbanking accessories that leaves our abstracts centers.'

Other little facts that arise on the action cover how a user alive three canicule of YouTube uses the agnate activity it takes to manufacture, amalgamation and bear one DVD, and how application 100 searches uses the aforementioned bulk of activity as application a 60W ablaze ball for 28 minutes.

And, if you are afraid of sending clandestine emails, or application 'cloud' services, whereby companies like Google, Microsoft or DropBox attending afterwards your abstracts and can beck it to assorted devices, Google wants you to apperceive there are some real-world aegis options congenital into their abstracts farms.

The aggregation says: 'We accept the accent of befitting your claimed abstracts secure. That’s why we assure your bulletin with a advanced ambit of aegis measures. Aegis cameras, iris scans and fingerprint scans at our abstracts centers are just a few of the measures we yield to defended and assure your information.'

The aggregation aswell states they use renewable activity for added than 30% of our operations.

Although Google may be artlessly aggravating to account some 'green' points, it is alluring to see the adventure of a Gmail from alpha to accomplishment - and as Google themselves say: 'This accomplished cruise took just abnormal and happens billions of times a day.'

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