Question

What would happen if Google abandoned all their data centers, with the power still connected?

How long would it take before Google's services would see an impact, and what would that impact be?

Answer 1

If google abandoned their data centers then it would probably take about a month or 2 and then we'd see googles services go down if they didn't pay the electric bill which I'm assuming they wouldn't pay the electric bill up since they'd be abandoning the place.

Then if they didn't pay property taxes the state would take the property and sell it at a tax sale.

If google went down for good the internet would be a lot different for sure and there'd probably be a lot of chaos. But we'd get by. There once was a time when google didn't exist on the internet and everything ran just fine then.