China has 4x the population of the USA, they manage to seriously compete with them on AI and they have 10x less fewer datacenters? And even less than Germany, where we just got rid of our Telefax machines a few years ago?
Most data centers have nothing at all to do with AI.
Hell, most data centers would struggle to add AI to their environment - they likely lack the spare power and cooling to increase workload that much.
Most data centers are data-storage facilities, with some processing workload capability (as much as is needed for the systems they host for their clients). But really, that’s largely just traditional database processing, etc.
You’re probably within spitting distance of one.
There are nearly 3x as many McDonalds locations in the US than data centers. So for every third McD’s you know of, there’s likely a data center nearby.
Thanks. Yeah, I remember Sam Altman said they want to build a datacenter each week… But that’s 52 a year, not thousands 😅 I somehow got confused with the scales. And sure, we’re not an internet hub (that’d be Frankfurt), but I think we have some facilities that probably qualify as a data center close to where I live. Some internet servers, businesses, an IT/Healthcare/Accounting company. I don’t think the universities qualify as data centers, but they’ll have some high performance compute clusters as well, plus a few rows of racks filled with servers to do their daily business…
China has 4x the population of the USA, they manage to seriously compete with them on AI and they have 10x
lessfewer datacenters? And even less than Germany, where we just got rid of our Telefax machines a few years ago?10x fewer
Most data centers have nothing at all to do with AI.
Hell, most data centers would struggle to add AI to their environment - they likely lack the spare power and cooling to increase workload that much.
Most data centers are data-storage facilities, with some processing workload capability (as much as is needed for the systems they host for their clients). But really, that’s largely just traditional database processing, etc.
You’re probably within spitting distance of one.
There are nearly 3x as many McDonalds locations in the US than data centers. So for every third McD’s you know of, there’s likely a data center nearby.
Thanks. Yeah, I remember Sam Altman said they want to build a datacenter each week… But that’s 52 a year, not thousands 😅 I somehow got confused with the scales. And sure, we’re not an internet hub (that’d be Frankfurt), but I think we have some facilities that probably qualify as a data center close to where I live. Some internet servers, businesses, an IT/Healthcare/Accounting company. I don’t think the universities qualify as data centers, but they’ll have some high performance compute clusters as well, plus a few rows of racks filled with servers to do their daily business…