Google Promises Evil-Free Outage Policy

Slow news day, so a 30-minute outage by Google--shutting "millions" out of their email accounts, gasp--merits some seriously extensive coverage.

Google responds by promising to be more open and transparent about acknowledging and addressing such outages.

Great, OK, fine. But how about applying a don't-do-evil policy to something much more important? To wit, I wonder when Google (and other monster datafarm owners) will tell everyone where they keep all their servers?

The games they play, ostensibly from corporate security concerns but truly from the potential embarrassment in letting the world know how un-green they are, seem ludicrous.

You've never seen Dow Chemical or any nuked-up utility try to hide their locations, have you?

As the importance of these server farms is only going to increase, probably exponentially in the coming decades, why not just let everyone know what's going on?