Inside The World's Largest Data Center

This millennium has seen the most advanced technological developments in human history, and the latest shift towards cloud-based technologies has changed the landscape and forced companies to develop. Now, more than ever, vast amounts of data are being processed; millions upon millions of pieces of information are being uploaded, downloaded and stored each second. Switch is a company whose aim it is to grow the Internet both intelligently and sustainably, and with the opening of its latest campus it demonstrates it really does mean what it says.

Globally, the average data centre has occupied a space of around 100,000 sq ft, but with a surge in demand for online tools, particularly over this past year, 100,000 sq ft units are now considered to be small. Switch’s latest offering places a 1.3 million sq ft warehouse among many other large buildings in its 17.4 million sq ft campus, dubbed The Citadel, a name which hints at the tech giant’s focus on security and innovation. The park lies adjacent to Tesla’s Gigafactory, a company with which Switch has worked alongside in order to bring a new lease of life, albeit high-tech, to the desert.

The campus’ largest building, Tahoe Reno 1, gained the title of the world’s largest colocation centre, dethroning the 1.1 million sq ft Lakeside Technology. The site was expected to cost upwards of $1 billion, but after building everything from the ground up the cost quickly tripled.

Inside The World's Largest Data Center

[-Rishikesh]

It shifted from being a documentary to a straight up AD for switch

[UNKNOWN-umvv]

Finally enough storage for modern warfare.

[rdwatson]

Shouldn't you disclose this is nothing more than a 7-minute ad for Switch?

[ebhendricks]

It seem disingenuous to leave out the fact this is a commercial.

[anthonychavez]

I live out here in, Las Vegas, Nevada and when we were all watching the NEW Switch locations being built it was crazy. I drove up with my mother and did not think anything of it as know one knew who or what was the building being built for. The night me and my mother decided to go drive out there we were meet with a security guard and this guy had two UZI looking guns on both sides of his chest. I think that was the day we realized how important this location was. The location in, Las Vegas, Nevada is located off of Warm Springs. If you ever want to take a look.

[michelangelo]

they can play online games with no lag 😍

[TheNefastor]

What's funny is that 50 years from now we'll have the power of that datacenter in a single smartphone and laugh about how primitive 2020 tech was.

[outtamyhoose]

Human capabilities are truly one of the most underrated things on this planet, I feel like we undermine the build process and pre-science for all technical machines. Factories have some of the most fascinating works of mechanical technology that we wouldn't even think of.

[carsongbaker]

I'm imagining to turn the server farm on and off somewhere inside the facility is a single giant "switch".

[zickzack]

1:31 10 Gigabit seems way too slow, is there some mistake?

[eclipses]

My teacher brought me here, glad he choose this channel :)

[realityextractor]

Data center capacity (size) hasn't been measured in area occupied in years. Power consumption is the actual measure of "how large" a data center is. So data center size is measured in MW.

[mr.invisible]

Try to conceive how much power these data centers use.

[dwkipoj]

The rich stay rich by spending less and Investing more while the poor stay poor by spending more but with no investment

[randyrrandelson]

Very interesting. I remember back 10 years ago when virtualization was crushing the data center market and a number of providers went under or were acquired by larger providers. My how things have changed.

[Fit.Fusion]

have you experienced the last week's Youtube outage? i think it was the first time when Google was down for more than an hour

[ericjenjohnson]

Most data centers require huge amounts of water for cooling and here’s switch building out in the desert. Something like water is not being added into the sustainability model.

[Jspath]

SWCH stock is like $15/share, i just added some to my portfolio

[kaosinc]

Scam Alert(possible): The Wesley Bates post/thread starting with "The rich stay rich". They are having a conversation with each other and just about nearly all joined YouTube on the same day in 2020.
Sept 5 William8nd,
Oct 8 Wesley Bates, Joseph Taylor, Mary Smith, James Bernard, Mason Phillip, Michaelraybedley, Caleb Semons, Raymond Michael,
Edward Smith, Christian Joseph, Anderson John, Douglas Coleman, Peter Simon, Robertj, Melissa weber, Kimberly Rose,
Cheryl Sherman, Karen Susan,
Oct 13 Lazy Writer,
Dec 15 Steven Roberts, Dean Arthur, Brayden Parker, Liam Hudson, Emma Kimberly, Jason Sawyer, Mateo Sebastian,

[hmoo]

A total shame. They took a google footage and used in at 4:16. And they expect us to entrust our data with them?