Posted on 08/31/2024 5:25:52 AM PDT by Duke C.
Since the beginning of the digital age, most of the world’s internet data has flowed through massive data centers in Northern Virginia. The area is known as “Data Center Alley” because it’s home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers. Some call the area ‘spy country’ because of the number of data centers used by the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies.
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Seven years? I’m not sure I like the sound of that.
Good... Longer the better.
When all data is hosted in the cloud, along with digitized government records and library books, it’ll be much easier to implement a communist “day zero” plan.
A simple rm *.* to wipe all financial records, land records, and historical info, and we will all be unburdened by what has been.
Ya couldn’t swing a dead cat in that area and not hit an intel office
AOC: Why do we even need data centers if we have clouds?
I would think it wise to geographically spread-out data centers.
Just wait until AI captures the data centers. That is going to be fun.
There are well over a hundred data centers now in Northern Virginia, all concentrated on three adjacent roads in a two mile box.
Five new (and more being added) power substations are needed to power them.
One Chinese EMP device or a power grid cyber attack will take them all out, along with most of America’s banking, online commerce, hospital and medical records, government data files, water supplies, pipelines, and communications assets.
But more are added every week because local county governments want the tsunami of taxes coming their way.
I don't live in Virginia, but I stream WMAL to listen to Chris Plante and Dan Bongino (I like Vince Coglianese a lot too). Consequently, I hear a lot of local news from that area during their news breaks - I cannot believe how much electricity and water these data centers require. It was a big eye-opener for me.
Simple fix. Get a decommissioned nuclear carrier or submarine to sail up the Potomac, dock it off, and then lay cables from the ship’s generators to your waterfront DC area data center.
Probably started by taking over those massive data centers owned by CompuServe and The Source with their millions of 300 baud modems...
Northern Virginia (DC suburbs) was the original hub of the World Wide Web. A company,Verisign,,was given the rights to assign IP addresses and the url names. Because any email or browser had to go through their translators to get to the right IP, almost all internet traffic in the ‘’90s went through Northern Virginia.
It’s a legacy situation plus favorable tax benefits that so much of the web and cloud is still in NoVA.
Yep. Reston is the center of all that because the comm pipes were established there.
Nope, it’s not Reston. No data centers in Reston.
They are about 5 miles west in Loudoun County.
The Chinese have a big bullseye on all their maps of that area.
If these low-IQ liberals want to keep doing tik-tok and TDS screeds on their iPads and cell phones, they’d better vote for Trump.
His golf course is only a few miles away and with him as President the Chinese wouldn’t dare to put a missile there.
Huh?
I worked in one of the data centers in Reston. Big sleek buildings with large parking lots the size of Walmart, with no signs outside telling you what it is.
The other ones with high fences, barriers, and federal police.
And other one that is an actual bank on the bottom floor, but the elevator off to the side away from normal traffic can only be operated by a special card. Yeah, that one.
They are all over Reston because of the comm infrastructure that was laid before Reston was built up.
Not Reston.
There are a few government or contractor facilities there, like the FAA and some spooks (actually, in next door Herndon) but all the new and much bigger data centers are in Loudoun county.
We are getting crossed by definition of what a data center is.
The National Media Exploitation Center is a data center.
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