There may well be far more datacenters than you might be aware of. It is a pretty large web.
But also, for larger companies, their onsite facilities are… a datacenter.
Also, the thing about datacenters is that you need great and redundant connections with high capacity. It’s far better to have a bunch of datacenters than it is to have them all scattered around to companies everywhere.
This recent push back against datacenters is, at least to some degree, fearmongering and using anti-AI sentiment to do so. A LOT of the information people are pushing is wrong.
(That said, there are lots of valid concerns about some datacenters, and some projects are being done in harmful ways. I’m not completely pro-datacenter, but they are a large part of how the internet is run, and most of them have nothing to do with AI, and we’ve had them in large numbers for 25+ years… and we can always improve, sure)
True but the cloud ones are. And there’s very few independent ones left. I used to rent a few colocation U’s for years with some SPARC servers as my private hosting but this kinda service is really rare now.
There may well be far more datacenters than you might be aware of. It is a pretty large web.
But also, for larger companies, their onsite facilities are… a datacenter.
Also, the thing about datacenters is that you need great and redundant connections with high capacity. It’s far better to have a bunch of datacenters than it is to have them all scattered around to companies everywhere.
This recent push back against datacenters is, at least to some degree, fearmongering and using anti-AI sentiment to do so. A LOT of the information people are pushing is wrong.
(That said, there are lots of valid concerns about some datacenters, and some projects are being done in harmful ways. I’m not completely pro-datacenter, but they are a large part of how the internet is run, and most of them have nothing to do with AI, and we’ve had them in large numbers for 25+ years… and we can always improve, sure)
AI isn’t the only bad thing about datacenters. The whole cloud movement is too. Putting all our data in the grubby hands of some American megacorps.
And we… put all our gas into a few gas station brands.
Amd again. Almost every single website is in a datacenter. You can be anti-cloud and don’t have to be anti-datacenter.
I run a few websites on my server that I rent… in a datacenter. Because paying to run it from my home is impractical for any number of reasons.
Datacenters are not a problem. Some things are, but not datacenters.
True but the cloud ones are. And there’s very few independent ones left. I used to rent a few colocation U’s for years with some SPARC servers as my private hosting but this kinda service is really rare now.