Have you ever wondered where all the memes, gifs, and viral videos that you consumer every day are stored? Where they are before they're delivered to your computer screen? In short: data centers, which are responsible for keeping the Internet running and keeping you entertained. Learn more about data centers - the brain of the internet - from this infographic by Server Central.
Infographic Sources:
1. Data Centers
2. Range International Information Hub
3. Microsoft now has one million servers - less than Google, but more than Amazon, says Ballmer
4. How Many Data Centers? Emerson Says 500,000
5. Intel's Low-Power Atom Chip Making Way Into Data Centers
6. The Surprisingly Large Energy Footprint of the Digital Economy [Update]
7. Measurement of data centre power consumption
8. Global census shows datacentre power demand grew 63% in 2012
9. Video: Installing a 2-Megawatt Generator
10. Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
11. Elk Grove Village DF-CH1
1. Data Centers
2. Range International Information Hub
3. Microsoft now has one million servers - less than Google, but more than Amazon, says Ballmer
4. How Many Data Centers? Emerson Says 500,000
5. Intel's Low-Power Atom Chip Making Way Into Data Centers
6. The Surprisingly Large Energy Footprint of the Digital Economy [Update]
7. Measurement of data centre power consumption
8. Global census shows datacentre power demand grew 63% in 2012
9. Video: Installing a 2-Megawatt Generator
10. Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
11. Elk Grove Village DF-CH1
Top image (bottom): Data Center - Wikimedia Foundation Servers. Credit: Victorgrigas/Wikimedia Commons.
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