the.com/cloud computing
someone else's computer, wearing a cheerful weather metaphor.
means renting processing power and storage over the internet instead of owning the hardware yourself.
from engineers drew networks as fuzzy cloud shapes in diagrams since the 90s to mean 'the internet, don't worry about the details' — the name just stuck when amazon and google started selling that fuzziness by the hour.
coined publiclypopularized around 2006 by amazon web services
the ironyclouds are just enormous, very physical warehouses
water costdata centers guzzle millions of gallons cooling chips
three giantsaws, azure, google control most of the market