Those reasons aren’t obvious to me. Why not just be transparent if that’s the case?

monocasa 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Google considers pretty much everything in hwops to be a trade secret. The point is to keep the specifics unknown as much as possible from competitors; the public at large's knowledge is just collateral damage in that fight.

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thayne 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

What benefit could competitors get from that information?

	▲	esafak 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The ability to improve their data centers, of course. Google is the company that launched data centers with commodity components.

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shadowgovt a minute ago | parent | prev | next [-]

[delayed]

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dietr1ch 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

If they are so good at it, they should push to make that the bare minimum and get to hold all future datacenter permits.

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ssss11 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep - better off redacting the great efficiencies we’re doing.