Spare a thought for the parched data centre
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Spare a thought for the parched data centre
I’ve recently begun to visit the internet. There, I’ve found cement, metal gates, water tanks, miles of solar farms, buzzing wires, fiber optic trenches, and towers. Data centers, often hidden from the everyday ‘user,’ house rows of blinking servers containing the vast contents of our digital lives. Inside these electronics lie conductive materials... See more
Kelley O’Leary • Elemental Internet
Data Stewardship: The Way Forward in the New Digital Data Landscape
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remotely control energy access to a number of inessential devices in order to lower consumption at particularly expensive times of the day and year. Copiers, printers, and
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
Establishing connections became a problem. All Maersk's computers and servers had crashed, so email and the company's internal chat system were down. To his surprise, Andy also found that the contacts on employees' phones had been wiped clean, because they were configured to fetch contacts from online servers, which had now been deleted. The Maiden
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