Maybe I got my history wrong, but that earlier philosophy of the Internet simply being a “web” of a bunch of interconnected computers/nodes felt like it was way more resilient.
Data centers certainly still have their use, for storage and CDNs and whatnot, but I feel that the corporations’ usual lust for monopoly probably overcentralized our infrastructure, annnnd here we are where if anything happens to AWS or Azure or whatever, nobody can connect to anything.
Corporate enterprise controlled networks are super lame.
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)
Maybe I got my history wrong, but that earlier philosophy of the Internet simply being a “web” of a bunch of interconnected computers/nodes felt like it was way more resilient.
Data centers certainly still have their use, for storage and CDNs and whatnot, but I feel that the corporations’ usual lust for monopoly probably overcentralized our infrastructure, annnnd here we are where if anything happens to AWS or Azure or whatever, nobody can connect to anything.
Corporate enterprise controlled networks are super lame.
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.
I thought it was a big truck? Or maybe a series of tubes?