{"id":4698,"date":"2026-08-31T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:49:37","slug":"how-do-you-think-that-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/08\/how-do-you-think-that-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Think That Works?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Perhaps those big, bad datacenters aren&#8217;t so bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you think that works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You take a dozen photos of your new-born nephew.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You listen to a new song or an old song.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You find a Chinese restaurant that is open at this hour.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You find a gas station on an empty stretch of highway when the needle is bouncing off empty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or how about<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That automated external defibrillator that brought your grandmother back to life<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The integrated continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) paired with wearable insulin pumps that keeps your next door neighbor alive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The imagery of the inside of your colon that locates cancer while it is still treatable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A dozen things in an Intensive Care Unit that keeps several dozen people alive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They work because of datacenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Datacenters are big. Still think datacenters are bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Perhaps those big, bad datacenters aren&#8217;t so bad. How do you think that works? or how about They work because of datacenters. Datacenters are big. Still think datacenters are bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,454,83,286,374,520,50],"tags":[234,455,200,287,372,521,172],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-cloud-computing","category-computing","category-conversation","category-data-science","category-datacenter","category-thinking","tag-america","tag-cloud-computing","tag-computing","tag-conversation","tag-data-science","tag-datacenter","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}