Why are they called “data” centers? They’re digital diarrhea centers. There is no “data” here in the sense of anything meaningful.
You might as well buy exabytes of storage, mount it as one volume, and pipe /dev/random to it. Or to be a bit more physical, hook up a noise diode to a nice ADC.
They’re called data centers because they… do actually have lots of meaningful data. Tons of it. A lot of it is stolen, most of it has no business being in these corporations’ hands, and none of it is available to you unless you can cut a big enough check, but it is real data. Why do you think palantir has been worming its way into every government agency? Its because they want valuable data, and they process that data in data centers.
Why are they called “data” centers? They’re digital diarrhea centers. There is no “data” here in the sense of anything meaningful.
You might as well buy exabytes of storage, mount it as one volume, and pipe /dev/random to it. Or to be a bit more physical, hook up a noise diode to a nice ADC.
They’re called data centers because they… do actually have lots of meaningful data. Tons of it. A lot of it is stolen, most of it has no business being in these corporations’ hands, and none of it is available to you unless you can cut a big enough check, but it is real data. Why do you think palantir has been worming its way into every government agency? Its because they want valuable data, and they process that data in data centers.