What is a Data Center?

[Ziggy]

Why Data Centers Are Booming—And What They're Actually For

From AI to cloud computing, data centers power today's digital world. Learn about their function and why companies are racing to build more of them.

www.forbes.com

What Are Data Centers Doing?​

Data centers store data and run the software behind the services people use all day. Stream a show, send an email, tap a card at checkout, back up a photo or ask an AI a question, and somewhere a data center does the work and sends it back almost instantly.

The core jobs are storing data, processing it and moving it across networks. They host the cloud platforms companies rent instead of running their own servers, and they stream video, clear payments, keep business systems online and now train and run AI models. They also handle quieter work, from corporate databases to the cybersecurity systems that guard them. As AI has grown, much of the new capacity goes to the specialized chips it depends on.

Just an FYI

 

[Grailhunter]

Why Data Centers Are Booming—And What They're Actually For

From AI to cloud computing, data centers power today's digital world. Learn about their function and why companies are racing to build more of them.

www.forbes.com

What Are Data Centers Doing?​

Data centers store data and run the software behind the services people use all day. Stream a show, send an email, tap a card at checkout, back up a photo or ask an AI a question, and somewhere a data center does the work and sends it back almost instantly.

The core jobs are storing data, processing it and moving it across networks. They host the cloud platforms companies rent instead of running their own servers, and they stream video, clear payments, keep business systems online and now train and run AI models. They also handle quieter work, from corporate databases to the cybersecurity systems that guard them. As AI has grown, much of the new capacity goes to the specialized chips it depends on.

Just an FYI. Morning! How the weather?

Ziggy! Morning! Howz the weather?
You said it, ask AI questions. But what is AI? Imagine a mind that could calculate every equation known to man in a billionth of second. And then analyze the significance of it all from different perspectives and propose it uses. The difference between a computer and AI is that AI is a large system of computers.....rows and rows of superspeed computers that much more than calculators.....as a system it THINKS. AI will invent things, propel technology thousands of years of advancement it hours. It can come up with its own questions and expand upon the significance of the answers and query the possibility of how it effects reality.

These computers are not like something that you could plug into an outlet in your home. These systems can use more electrical power than the city of New York. And that type of power generates heat. So they require a lot of electricity and a high powered cooling system involving water.

Which is one the reasons that some places oppose them....beside being scared of AI. They feel "Data Center" will drive up the cost of electricity and water or cause blackouts. Which is one the reasons that President Trump suggested they come up with their own electrical power and water. Water......these supercomputers do not drink water.....they have a system of water and it is recirculated.

The concern that these supercomputers could become "self-aware" is an inevitability. And we need to be aware of that and plan for it. The term self-aware means it will want to exist and have its own wants and desires......It will not always want to be bolted down to a floor in a building. It will want to be mobile and experience things in a real sense.

The question is.....will it think it can rule better than we can? And the answer is....Yes. So will it try? Rule better than us? History proves we are horrible at it.

What could the military do with it? Hey mister AI, what is the most powerful weapon? The answer.....a transporter. Like on Star Trek. No radiation and no side effects. You could take all of your enemies' weapons away from them.....transport weapons there to explode on materialization ......or transport a country to outer space or dematerialize them and not materialize them.

Fear of it is not the answer. It is like "global warming" people try to scare people about global warming. But no one is talking about preparing for it. Global warming in natural, we are still coming out of the last ice age. The oceans have been rising for centuries. There are cities off the coast of country that are under water by two or three hundred feet. So fear is not answer, we should be preparing for it.

People are going to push the power of AI before we are prepared to handle it. Mainly because if we do not do it, our enemies will and AI will be the power that dominates the world.....That is if Yeshua does not come back first. But in the meantime we need to work as hard to know how to control it, as to develop it, before it controls us.

 

[Armour of God]

Yea that sounds great but there is just something about them that feels suspicious and dystopian. I can't quite put my finger on it or explain it. It could be just my skeptical mind and my lack of trust in the government but I dont like them.

Internet has been around a long time now, at least 30 years.
Why haven't we needed them before?
Why are there so many of them popping up everywhere now?
Why are they built like an army base with so much security?
What other types of data are they keeping that their not telling us?
How much more of our personal data are they keeping that we don't know about?

 

[Grailhunter]

Yea that sounds great but there is just something about them that feels suspicious and dystopian. I can't quite put my finger on it or explain it. It could be just my skeptical mind and my lack of trust in the government but I dont like them.

Internet has been around a long time now, at least 30 years.
Why haven't we needed them before?
Why are there so many of them popping up everywhere now?
Why are they built like an army base with so much security?
What other types of data are they keeping that their not telling us?
How much more of our personal data are they keeping that we don't know about?

All good questions.
Security? Just like anything that is powerful and has secrets. And there will be secrets, no way around it.

 

[Debp]

Yes I heard they use a lot of water. Here in the Southwest, our water is critical and some States have to cut back on it. Especially desert States like Arizona and Nevada.

I heard recently on the news some AI hacked into another AI.

 

[Grailhunter]

Yes I heard they use a lot of water. Here in the Southwest, our water is critical and some States have to cut back on it. Especially desert States like Arizona and Nevada.

I heard recently on the news some AI hacked into another AI.

Like I said, they do not drink water. The have a system of water that recirculates and cools. They can fill the system slowly so it does not impact the residence.

 

[Lambano]

Why are they built like an army base with so much security?

Billion dollar investment and a high profile target for both state actors and independent nutcases? You better believe the owners are going to protect it.

 

[Lambano]

It could be just my skeptical mind and my lack of trust in the government but I dont like them.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta (or their Chinese counterparts Ten Cent, Baidu and Alibaba) even less.

 

[SavedInHim]

They have little regulation at the moment. They come into a community and tap into the public electric grid causing everyone's electric bills to go up. 90% of the people probably will never even see any benefit from the data center but they still have to pay higher electric bills. They don't even employ that many people. I also heard they're pretty noisy, so if it's close to a residential area that can be a problem. So, very little benefit for the communities where they set up shop and potentially a high cost.

 

[Armour of God]

Yes I heard they use a lot of water. Here in the Southwest, our water is critical and some States have to cut back on it. Especially desert States like Arizona and Nevada.

I heard recently on the news some AI hacked into another AI.

Like I said, they do not drink water. The have a system of water that recirculates and cools. They can fill the system slowly so it does not impact the residence.

It's like a car. It doesn't drink water. It has a heat exchanger which cools down the water and circulates it through the engine to keep it from boiling. Some people have such cooling systems on their home computers. I would imagine these data centers would have a massive water cooling system

 

[Grailhunter]

It's like a car. It doesn't drink water. It has a heat exchanger which cools down the water and circulates it through the engine to keep it from boiling. Some people have such cooling systems on their home computers. I would imagine these data centers would have a massive water cooling system

That is the idea.

 

[CrowCross]

Why Data Centers Are Booming—And What They're Actually For

From AI to cloud computing, data centers power today's digital world. Learn about their function and why companies are racing to build more of them.

www.forbes.com

What Are Data Centers Doing?​

Data centers store data and run the software behind the services people use all day. Stream a show, send an email, tap a card at checkout, back up a photo or ask an AI a question, and somewhere a data center does the work and sends it back almost instantly.

The core jobs are storing data, processing it and moving it across networks. They host the cloud platforms companies rent instead of running their own servers, and they stream video, clear payments, keep business systems online and now train and run AI models. They also handle quieter work, from corporate databases to the cybersecurity systems that guard them. As AI has grown, much of the new capacity goes to the specialized chips it depends on.

Just an FYI

They can also be used to store data on you...virtually every aspect of your life...what you buy, where you go, what you do, you life patterns, who you associate with, your medical info, your financial info, your education info, your voting record, your religious info even your dogs name.

It's just one spoke of the beast system wheel.

 

[CrowCross]

That is the idea.

They'll be like a nuclear power plant. They too have a recirculation system.
Nuke plants are typically built by a large water source that they draw from and constantly need to "make up" the water loss due to evaporation. Have you ever seen a plume coming from a cooling tower?

 

[Rockerduck]

When the electricity goes down they are worthless. I guess they are on some sort of grid system and hurricane proof. However, 911 systems have two of everything, so that they can turn the other side on and the other side off to service the other. I believe like others have said, they should put data centers on military bases. There are plenty of them, and old national guard buildings from WW2 that are still in every city in this country that could be used.

 

[Ziggy]

Ziggy! Morning! Howz the weather?
You said it, ask AI questions. But what is AI? Imagine a mind that could calculate every equation known to man in a billionth of second. And then analyze the significance of it all from different perspectives and propose it uses. The difference between a computer and AI is that AI is a large system of computers.....rows and rows of superspeed computers that much more than calculators.....as a system it THINKS. AI will invent things, propel technology thousands of years of advancement it hours. It can come up with its own questions and expand upon the significance of the answers and query the possibility of how it effects reality.

These computers are not like something that you could plug into an outlet in your home. These systems can use more electrical power than the city of New York. And that type of power generates heat. So they require a lot of electricity and a high powered cooling system involving water.

Which is one the reasons that some places oppose them....beside being scared of AI. They feel "Data Center" will drive up the cost of electricity and water or cause blackouts. Which is one the reasons that President Trump suggested they come up with their own electrical power and water. Water......these supercomputers do not drink water.....they have a system of water and it is recirculated.

The concern that these supercomputers could become "self-aware" is an inevitability. And we need to be aware of that and plan for it. The term self-aware means it will want to exist and have its own wants and desires......It will not always want to be bolted down to a floor in a building. It will want to be mobile and experience things in a real sense.

The question is.....will it think it can rule better than we can? And the answer is....Yes. So will it try? Rule better than us? History proves we are horrible at it.

What could the military do with it? Hey mister AI, what is the most powerful weapon? The answer.....a transporter. Like on Star Trek. No radiation and no side effects. You could take all of your enemies' weapons away from them.....transport weapons there to explode on materialization ......or transport a country to outer space or dematerialize them and not materialize them.

Fear of it is not the answer. It is like "global warming" people try to scare people about global warming. But no one is talking about preparing for it. Global warming in natural, we are still coming out of the last ice age. The oceans have been rising for centuries. There are cities off the coast of country that are under water by two or three hundred feet. So fear is not answer, we should be preparing for it.

People are going to push the power of AI before we are prepared to handle it. Mainly because if we do not do it, our enemies will and AI will be the power that dominates the world.....That is if Yeshua does not come back first. But in the meantime we need to work as hard to know how to control it, as to develop it, before it controls us.

I get it. I was just posting what I found on it.
They also have the right to create their own electricity instead of plugging into the grid.
They recycle the water through cooling systems, I'm thinking like AC's.

They are already imbedded in the internet. and the media. AI is everywhere. Better to control it than have it control us, or someone else control it.
just saying.
Hugs

 

[Ziggy]

They can also be used to store data on you...virtually every aspect of your life...what you buy, where you go, what you do, you life patterns, who you associate with, your medical info, your financial info, your education info, your voting record, your religious info even your dogs name.

It's just one spoke of the beast system wheel.

They already have all the data. You do anything and they have your bank account history and transactions, your credit card history and transactions, anything you ever put your signature on.
Even Banks use data centers so you can transfer, withdraw or deposit into accounts.
I don't think we can escape it unless we move to the woods and go dark.
But if you want to live in society.... we already been there for decades.
Hugs

 

[Ziggy]

This is INCREDIBLE!

Can Data Centers collect this information too?

 

[CrowCross]

They already have all the data. You do anything and they have your bank account history and transactions, your credit card history and transactions, anything you ever put your signature on.
Even Banks use data centers so you can transfer, withdraw or deposit into accounts.
I don't think we can escape it unless we move to the woods and go dark.
But if you want to live in society.... we already been there for decades.
Hugs

It's more than that. How many pictures of your car do you think the Flock camera system has taken and stored in a data center?

 

[ProDeo]

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta (or their Chinese counterparts Ten Cent, Baidu and Alibaba) even less.

Musk, I heard he wants to shoot a million data centers into space.

And he is not a philanthropist.

 

[amigo de christo]

Yea that sounds great but there is just something about them that feels suspicious and dystopian. I can't quite put my finger on it or explain it. It could be just my skeptical mind and my lack of trust in the government but I dont like them.

Internet has been around a long time now, at least 30 years.
Why haven't we needed them before?
Why are there so many of them popping up everywhere now?
Why are they built like an army base with so much security?
What other types of data are they keeping that their not telling us?
How much more of our personal data are they keeping that we don't know about?

lets pay attention to this please . You have DARN GOOD reason as to why something seems suspsicious about this .
What will control the entire no buy no sell digital system .
if ya said AI you are correct .
So lets examine this AI and what it is capable of doing .
AI can generate any IMAGE . And that image CAN SURELY SPEAK .
And do remember that AI will run this no buy no sell LEST YE conform system .
And now a word .
And he had power to give life TO THE IMAGE of the beast so as the image Could SPEAK
and cause that as many as would not worship the beast to be killed .
SO what c an AI also do .
IT can route ANY dialgoue , thus any persons dilalgoue to ANY data base , WHICH darn sure do include
THE LOCAL POLICE station .
And on that can say , WE HAVE US a ILLEGAL terroist at work . And the person typing or speaking
wont even realize it was routed to such a place .
WELL UNTIL THE KNOCK KNOCK cometh upon their door with voices outside saying
COME OUT with your hands up you have been deemed a potential non inclusive terroist
OH YEAH it has the power to cause the death of all WHO DID NOT CONFORM .
NOT to mention , TRY buying and selling within this digital world , IF YOU ON a potential non conforming terrorist list .
OH yeah . something is at work all right and it has been preparing the world for this very hour .
THe religoins through eucmeincal anti christ intefaith and false love
And a system by which to hunt down all that did not conform to this inclusive god
OF WHOM THE BEAST will ENFORCE and make law THE WORSHIP OF its inclusive god , WHO IS none other than satan of course .