Nearly everyone has used one. They provide billions of search results, deliver millions of email messages and even stores your documents. However, if you are like most surfers, you have not even given a second thought to where they are. I am of course talking about Google data centers.

It is no secret that Google has rapidly become more than just a search tool. Over the last few years they have also quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, been working toward offering you their software and storing your data on their servers. But, joining the SaaS game requires lots and lots of space. Most have read about the data center wars between Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google. However, not much has been said about where Google current data centers called home–until now.

Using publicly available information user, Pingdom, at Wayfaring has mapped the location of many Google data centers world wide. By clicking on the map above you too can satisfy your geek curiosity and not only locate your nearest Google farm, but you can also view the buildings using Google maps satellite view.

While this knowledge will not help you the next time you google a Linux command or locate car repair shop or create and store a Google Apps document, it does score pretty high on the Geek ‘o meter.