the.com/data center
a warehouse where the cloud keeps its shoes on.
means a building full of servers, cooling, and backup power that stores and processes the internet's actual data.
from grew from 1940s room-sized computers needing dedicated space, exploded with the dot-com boom, then again with cloud computing and ai.
power hungercan use as much electricity as a small city
cooling costoften equals the energy used to compute
redundancy rulemost run duplicate everything to never go dark
location logicbuilt near cheap power and cold climates