This is crazy, data center boom

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popper43 said:
And internet will slow way down!! And what happens when all YOUR data is lost when a center fails? Or an AI crawler breaches security all that data?
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I think you have most of this backwards. Redundancy is one of the things data centers are particularly good at and useful for. I have a lot of real world experience with this, both "back in the day" before data centers and now, utilizing data centers. Data centers are so much better it's not even a conversation worth having.

In overly simplistic terms, adding a bunch of additional "server nodes" with less geographical spacing will reduce latency, not increase it. And has nothing to do with your home internet connection speed anyway. Etc. I don't see how data centers are going to have a negative impact on internet speed. Not for home and small business users. As of now, they have increased speed for large enterprise users.

One thing you do have right - of course they'll get hacked. Doesn't change the fact that the best information security practices available now are still based on using data centers. They aren't going to be "safe", nothing is ever going to be "safe". But for now, they are the "most safe". See earlier conversation about replacing all servers monthly for one example. Still, we should all take it for granted that any personal data that exists online is probably already in the hands of bad actors. But if by some chance it is not, know that it will be.

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