the.com/datacenter
a warehouse where the cloud keeps its actual, sweating, humming body.
means a building full of servers that stores and processes the internet's data, guzzling power and water to keep it cool.
from from data plus center, coined mid-20th century as mainframes outgrew office closets and needed dedicated, climate-controlled rooms of their own.
water usea large one drinks millions of gallons daily
electricity drawsome rival small cities in power use
ai boomdemand is outpacing grid capacity in many regions
cooling costoften nearly as expensive as computing itself