the.com/data centers
the cloud is just someone else's warehouse, humming and thirsty in a field near you.
means a building full of servers that stores, processes, and serves the internet you think lives magically in the air.
from from 1940s room-sized mainframes to 1990s dot-com server closets, now sprawling campuses built wherever land and power are cheap.
water usesome campuses drink millions of gallons daily cooling chips
power hungercould consume near 8 percent of us electricity by 2030
hidden geographyclustered in virginia because of tax breaks and dark fiber
ai drivenchatbots quietly tripled demand for new server capacity