Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Perhaps those big, bad datacenters aren’t so bad.

How do you think that works?

• You take a dozen photos of your new-born nephew.
• You listen to a new song or an old song.
• You find a Chinese restaurant that is open at this hour.
• You find a gas station on an empty stretch of highway when the needle is bouncing off empty.

or how about

• That automated external defibrillator that brought your grandmother back to life
• The integrated continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) paired with wearable insulin pumps that keeps your next door neighbor alive
• The imagery of the inside of your colon that locates cancer while it is still treatable
• A dozen things in an Intensive Care Unit that keeps several dozen people alive

They work because of datacenters.

Datacenters are big. Still think datacenters are bad?