#server farm

[eopederson2]

Server Farm, East Wenatchee, Washington, 2019.

[siliconleaks-blog]

#AMAZON IS #BUZZWORDS

45% #DRONE

32% #DYSTOPIA

6% #SEXISM

5% #SERVER_FARM

5% #GLOBAL_WARMING

(inferred from #BigData #Wikipedia) #SiliconLeaks #BigTech @amazon  #OccupySiliconValley #Monopoly #Disruption #FinTech #JeffBezos #Kindle #AmazonPrime #DoD

[economicsresearch]

page 385 c - looks like the warehouse district to me, where all the things that need warehousing are warehoused. Good work English language.

Also, maybe a server farm.

[dash-digital]

[eopederson2]

Server farm, East Wenatchee Washington, 2019.

Just uphill from Rocky Reach Dam, electricity is cheap. Of course it employs at most a few dozen workers, hardly a. technology hub for Douglas County, from which I suspect it got a sizable tax break.

[i2-xmf]

“DSC_6049” (2008)

[itmedeban]

SPCA discovers millions of starving Neopets in abandoned server farm

TORONTO - In a raid conducted yesterday, the Toronto SPCA made a horrifying discovery when they found countless neglected and starving Neopets in a de-activated server farm, apparently left to die over ten years ago.

[webauthoring]

Have you heard of a server farm?

Server farms are a collective of computer servers to run applications on the web. Server farms can process client requests (that could be you) in a quick and efficient away. Some tech companies have their own server farms to process the huge amount of requests that they get, and some even have several server farms around the country or world.

Server farms are generally located inside data centres and require a lot of cooling, as they can generate a lot of heat. Server farms allow for one server to fail without implications on the user; another identical server will be able to continue it’s work and process the request. 

Facebook have a data centre in Co. Meath, that operates 24 hours a day. It servers not just Ireland, but also contributes to how the UK and Europe access the web, social media, Netflix, etc. 

Rory Carroll in The Irish Times writes; “The cloud can create carbon: it is estimated that when the music video Despacito reached 5 billion streamed YouTube views in 2018, the energy consumption was equivalent to powering 40,000 US homes a year (it has now exceeded 6.5 billion views)...

Ireland’s data centres have a low profile. They tend to operate from anonymous-looking business parks with high-security perimeter fences and intruder detection alarms. A Google centre has colourful murals but the rest are grey and nondescript, with discreet signage.”

You can read the full article here.

However, many of these large tech companies are moving or have already moved to power these data centres with renewable energy. Google, for example, has been carbon neutral since 2007.