Riding the wind of rebirth

Before the advent of distributed systems, the requirements for centralized data centers were still very high.

The U.S. federal government data centers can be roughly divided into three categories based on their functions. The first category is customer-oriented data centers, the second category is analytical data centers, and the last category is called tactical or portable data centers.

Customer-oriented data centers mainly refer to websites that are accessed by the public. Such data centers need to flexibly respond to customer needs while maintaining the necessary security profiles.

Analytical data centers are primarily focused on creating differentiated products for customers and then conducting further scientific research, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's data center.

Tactical or portable data centers are the size of an airline suitcase and support battlefield operations, remote operations, disaster recovery and industrial environments, such as tactical data centers.

The alliance forum is a combination of the first and third types. Data storage and user access belong to the first category, and data management and maintenance belong to the third category.

Data center costs are divided into construction costs and operating costs. Construction costs include infrastructure construction and equipment purchase. Infrastructure construction mainly includes buildings, water, electricity, rack design, etc., accounting for about 25% of construction investment. Equipment mainly includes storage servers and communication equipment, accounting for about 33% and 10% of construction costs respectively.

The operating costs include various depreciations, which account for more than 30%, and the remaining electricity bills basically account for 50 to 60 percent.

It should be pointed out that almost half of the electricity bill is used for heat dissipation.

After understanding these, you can fully understand the construction planning of the central computer rooms of major enterprises.

Generally, they are set up in places with sufficient electricity, plenty of cooling water, and fiber optic connections. It is also best to have convenient and cheap rent or real estate construction, tax incentives and exemptions, and be far away from natural disasters.

For example, Microsoft later placed its server center in the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The server was sealed in a steel cabin with a heat exchanger placed inside and outside the cabin.

Facebook placed its servers in a small town in the Arctic Circle, where the average temperature is around -20 degrees Celsius. The heat dissipation effect is excellent!

Google’s placement is similar to Facebook’s, in an extremely cold region of Russia.

Among the major domestic companies, Tencent has placed its servers in a cave tunnel in Qianzhong. The cave is equipped with high-tech means such as face recognition and security robots. In addition to preventing ordinary people, it can also prevent attacks from conventional weapons and nuclear weapons. Security is naturally not a problem. It covers an area of ​​about 770 acres, and the tunnel area exceeds 3 square meters. It is spacious and safe, and there is no need to worry about external attacks.

Many hydropower stations in Qianzhong have large power generation capacity, but due to the difficulty in constructing transmission lines, a large amount of electricity is difficult to connect to the market and convert into profits. The extremely low electricity price is also the reason why Tencent is interested in that place.

Alibaba has placed its servers at the bottom of Qiandao Lake. When the servers are connected through the tunnel of Pearl Peninsula, lake water is pumped through pipes to cool the servers, and then returned to Qiandao Lake through natural cooling to achieve circulating cooling.

At present, these domestic large factories are still small Karami, and many of them are still relying on Clover for incubation. On the contrary, Clover itself has begun to lay out under the guidance of Zhouzhi based on the experience of the previous life. The places currently being eyed are Anshun in Qianzhong and Tongguanxia where Qiandao Lake is located in Chun'an County, Hangzhou. These are very important resources, and can even be said to be strategic. The Digital Alliance has also got up early and seized the opportunity. However, due to the poor network, it is currently impossible to build a data center in the Arctic Circle. Of course, Alaska cannot be chosen. Instead, it has chosen the northernmost part of the United States near Canada, a small town called Eagle Lake in Polk County, Florida.

The town is surrounded by many lakes. The highest temperature all year round is only around 20 degrees. There are only 2,000 residents. It used to be mainly engaged in fishing and tourism. There are no industries that compete for electricity resources, and there is a large amount of high-quality low-temperature fresh water for cooling the computer room. It can be said to be a Feng Shui treasure land.

I heard that the scenery is particularly beautiful, but I guess it’s unlikely that I’ll have the chance to visit Zhouzhi.

Of course, it is mainly a storage center responsible for storing data, and the real management center is in New York City, which has strong technical strength and timely information. As an alliance forum closely related to the cultural industry, it is of course necessary to set up an office in the cultural center, and the user data statistics management work is of course more convenient here.

Although the value created by the Alliance Forum is considerable and is expected to exceed US$1 billion this year, there are not many people managing it. There are only forty or fifty managers of the entire Digital Alliance Music Forum, and many of them are engaged in market analysis and marketing, finance, and human resources management. There are actually only seven or eight real technical personnel.

Even so, their work is relatively easy, because they are just maintenance personnel. The forum was developed by the Clover Group, and because China's software industry is quite prosperous, the forum's upgrades and iterations are quite fast. Its applicability is also the best in the world and it is very popular with users. The backend functions are also very powerful, so it is very easy to maintain.

When Zhou Zhi arrived, there were four young men in the computer room working hard to monitor the forum for unfavorable news.

Margaret walked over and clapped her hands: "We have found several key users, and now we need to know all their activities in the forum."

Richard Riel nodded to Mai Xiaomiao: "Her name is Lily, she is a data expert hired by our major shareholder. She has found some clues so far, and everyone should cooperate with her now."

Mai Xiaomiao was not polite. He found a seat and sat down, opening his laptop. "I need the forum administrator's user rights now. Based on the usernames on this list, you should analyze their behavior in the forum. The more detailed the better, including their upstream and downstream connections, daily activities, economic exchanges, knowledge product exchanges, etc."

"Also, the communities they joined, the frequency of their activities in the communities, the keywords in their daily chat records, etc..."

"First check 'The Last Yashkokamut'," Zhou Zhi said, "focusing on his income level and financial dealings."

After saying that, he turned his head and said, "Tony, this is not considered an invasion of privacy, right?"

Tony Huang laughed and said, "Elbow, you are really more cautious than Westerners. This is the authority of the forum administrator. But to be on the safe side, I will draft a confidentiality agreement and authorization agreement now. After you and Xiao Miao sign it, there will be no problem." (End of this chapter)