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Meyer; Data Centers are the repository of all the searchable information that you find on the internet and the switching and routing mechanisms that direct things like email. Yes, you can host your own server on a PC at home, but you still need equipment that routes and directs internet traffic.

To the question "function of Data centers in the internet" Brave search summarizer provides:

"Data centers serve as the physical infrastructure and "factories" of the internet, housing the servers, storage, and networking equipment that store, process, and distribute digital information. They enable essential internet functions by hosting websites, cloud computing platforms, email services, and streaming media, ensuring that data is accessible to users globally with high availability and low latency.**

Key functions include:

Data Storage and Processing: Centralizing vast amounts of data and using specialized hardware to execute computational tasks for applications and AI models.

Network Connectivity: Acting as hubs that route traffic between users and servers, managing data flow through routers and switches to maintain internet connectivity.

Service Hosting: Supporting critical digital services such as e-commerce, social media, online banking, and cloud storage by providing the secure, climate-controlled environments necessary for 24/7 operation.

Redundancy and Security: Ensuring business continuity and data protection through backup power systems, failover mechanisms, and physical security measures.

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We want this to be done Here in the US, not overseas in China. (There are something like 17 data centers in warehouse and office complexes in the town next door to me and its like Nobody around here is aware that they even exist. )

The problem I have with it, with big data - what personal information about me is in there. Who’s keeping it? Where can I access it, and who else can access it.

I see it ultimately as a huge database whereby shady characters (like all democrats and half the republicans, along with plenty of other entities) can use that information against me, or to steer my behavior. Social credit score kind of stuff.

And when you toss in surveillance like flock cameras, well, just wait until the next plandemic. We will all be prisoners in our own homes.

If it’s just about storing images and moving emails (which are not secure) and texts around the internet, that’s one thing. Controlling internet traffic, all that. But that’s not what I think big data is doing. The exponential increase in capacity means an exponential increase in information being acquired and stored.

AI supports it because AI is programmed to support it. AI uses it. AI _is_ big data. I don’t really see most AI as anything more than a glorified search engine, complete with all the biases that its creators have decided to include.

I'm conflicted with Data centers. AI is taking over which will happen no mater what.

Problem is the same-ol same-ol,it's like ships, weapons you name it.

We are in a mfg. war with the chicoms.If we don't stay ahead of them they win we lose. They never lose since they steal everything they can from us. If they can't figure it out they just steal it from us.

It's a viscous world at times,true survival of the fittest.

IMHO, the smart play for us with the data centers is to take advantage of their over-funding which is massive.

If data centers expanded and were built on the Atlantic,Pacific and Gulf they could also provide soon to be needed, if not now, fresh water.

We had desalinization plants in Key West 40 years ago. They worked then nand will work better now. Also, it solves the water problem for the centers and allows them to sell excess fresh water that is super pure.

Same thing can happen with electricty.Instead of stealing local power why not go small nukes and create their own. Or, better yet, free energy machines. Once again make it big enough to sell,share or give to the locals so data centers become big pluses for local areas instead of constant friction for no reason.

When you think about it data center constrution which creates loads of jobs, some employment of locals and providing not only their own needs for water and power but excess that can be sold and maybe profit shared with locals could be a big win.

It's all an attitude.

You can make them a positive addition to the locale or do what we do now and just give the rats one more issue to beat us over the head with.

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