Data Center Overload

theodp writes "The first rule of data centers is: don't talk about data centers. Still, the NY Times Magazine manages to take its readers on a nice backstage tour of internet data centers, convincing Microsoft and others to let them sneak a peek inside some of the mega-centers that make up today's cloud. And if it's been a while since you software types stepped inside a real-life computing facility, there's an accompanying data-center-porn slideshow that'll give you an idea where your e-mail, photos, videos, music, searches, and other online services that you take for granted these days come from." Reader coondoggie sends in a related story about a government plan to spend $50 million on improving data center technology.

Re:Data Center Overload

[Jerome H]

Actually I'm pretty bored so I would have read anything remotly related to data centers.

But now I'm just disappointed.

Re:Data Center Overload

[Hognoxious]

Well I for one welcome them.

I, for one, ...

[fahrbot-bot]

... welcome our new Data Center Overlord!
[ What? Oh (damn glasses), never mind. ]

Re:Some people's small world

[billybob_jcv]

HG Wells said it in 1895. The human species will bifurcate into the Morlocks who build machines and technology, and the Eloi who pick flowers. The bad news is that we are the Morlocks. The good news is that we eat the Eloi.

Re:Data Center Overload

[Plunky]

Maybe I'm spoiled, but I've seen much bigger, denser datacenters.

Maybe you have but I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. Wait, what?