sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoTurns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyardwww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1271arrow-down13
arrow-up1268arrow-down1external-linkTurns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyardwww.motherjones.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareacosmichippo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 hours agoliterally no one calls a single server a datacenter, and there is no reason to. If you did, then you’d just need to come up with a new term for datacenters. for what? Just use the term the way everyone else does.
minus-squareunwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoWell… A data center is… A data center. So a central plave for data. It isn’t called Data Warehouse, Data Industrual Plant or Data Mega Shop. So - if the place is… a central place for the town people’s data (as in OC’s cases)… Wouldn’t “Data Center” be a fitting name?
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 minutes agoNo, just a server room/rack.
literally no one calls a single server a datacenter, and there is no reason to. If you did, then you’d just need to come up with a new term for datacenters. for what? Just use the term the way everyone else does.
Well…
A data center is… A data center. So a central plave for data.
It isn’t called Data Warehouse, Data Industrual Plant or Data Mega Shop.
So - if the place is… a central place for the town people’s data (as in OC’s cases)…
Wouldn’t “Data Center” be a fitting name?
No, just a server room/rack.