Google CEO Sundar Pichai mourns the passing of Luiz André Barroso, who invented the modern data center at Google.Barroso played a vital role in Google's technical achievements, including data center innovations and computing infrastructure design.He had a strong academic background and received the highest honor in computer architecture from ACM.Barroso's contributions extended beyond Google, including environmental conservation work and receiving the IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award.