What is a Datacenter ?

Do you know where your instagram pics are stored? You think you know, but you have no idea!

🔌 Ready to unveil the truth behind the energy ogres? 🕵️ Let’s debunk the myths surrounding this powerful digital storage houses, the datacenters!

👹 Are they the hungry beasts of the digital age, devouring electricity with insatiable carbon footprint appetites? 🚀 Or are they the driving force behind technological advancements?

Why not just start by first demystifying datacenters and explain what they are?

✅ Digital hubs where valuable information is stored, managed, processed, and delivered such as your company website, your @linkedin app, your last holiday pictures and videos!

✅ Home to countless servers, network equipment, storage systems, cooling systems, security systems, Power distribution units (PDU’s) and power generators, raised floors, racks, environmental sensors and controllers, keyboards, screens, and so on!

✅ Powerhouse behind internet services, cloud computing, big data analytics, AI, home office, 5G, 3D, @Apple, @candy crush, @twitter or just playing video games online!

Basically, datacenters are the backbone of our digital world, enabling seamless connectivity, technological advancements, heavy investment and competition in the sustainability race, and a huge job market within as much as in related sectors.

What are your thought about datacenters? I would like to know!