Data centers explained: the hidden infrastructure behind your daily digital life
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every time you stream something, pay a bill, or ask an AI a question, a server somewhere is putting in the work. Those servers live in data centers: large, unglamorous buildings full of humming machines that run around the clock and consume staggering amounts of power and water. Most people have never given them a second thought. In towns across the United States, that’s starting to change. What a data center actually is A data center is a building, sometimes
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