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> Remember boys and girls, data centers need large capacity as they store things, AI requires high speed computation. So why aren’t they named high-speed computation centers?

LOL. Information that is stored in storage is "data".

Information that is processed by high-speed computers is "data".

Data is the one thing in common between storage and computation.

And that, boys and girls, is why they're called "data centers".

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Incidentally, there are some datacenters that are optimized for storage over computation, or computation over storage, but you can't have one without the other; it's just a balance.

For example there's a inconceivably ginormous facility out West called the "Utah Data Center" (UDC) where the government (specifically the NSA) is storing inconceivably ginormous amounts of data on American citizens. People think of it as a "storage facility" but in fact there's a cubic f*ck-ton of compute power there as well, to manage and sort all that data.