the.com/data center
A warehouse where the cloud keeps its body.
means A building full of servers that store, process, and serve the internet's data around the clock.
from Term emerged in the 1990s dot-com boom when companies needed dedicated rooms for growing server farms; the concept dates back to 1940s mainframe rooms with raised floors for cable runs.
power hungerone large center can use a small city's electricity
cooling costoften equals nearly the compute power itself
invisible internetevery cloud upload lands in a physical room
water usesome consume millions of gallons daily for cooling