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It Was Raining in the Data Center
To put it another way, Amazon had to construct its system to be large enough to accommodate the burst of shopping during the week after Thanksgiving—even though that week comes around only once a year. Most of the system’s capacity went unused most of the time.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish Library of Alexandria has been burned to the ground. Except unlike the burning of such a library, when a website folds, the ensuing commentary from tech blogs asks only why the company folded, or why ... See more
Kate Wagner • 404 Page Not Found | Kate Wagner
His conclusion is echoed by the writer James Bridle, who has declared the era of cloud computing “the New Dark Age,” a regress to a time when knowledge could be obtained only through revelation, without true understanding.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard.
James O'Donnelltechnologyreview.com
as having data hosted in the private cloud and computing in the public cloud.