Data Center

• Requests for data travel through undersea cables to reach out to data centers.
• Data centers store and process information to support various digital services and products.
  • CSPs remove the need for maintaining the growth of infrastructure with demand over time.
• Multi-tenancy: Customers can share resources of the same server, making usage more efficient and lower costs.

Failure scenarios in data centers

Component and server-level failures

• Failures on hardware.
  • More common.
  • CPU, RAM, etc. can get damaged.
• Site power outages.
  • Based on local power availability, which can be impacted by natural disasters like floods and hurricanes.
  • This is often prevented by using backup power resources.
• Downtime due to software failures.
  • Bad code published.
  • A third-party update that may not be well supported.

How many wind turbines might it take to support the power of the global data center pipeline of a big technology company like Google or Microsoft?

Data centers use about 1% of the world’s electricity.