Question
In 2011, one of these facilities in Oregon ran into issues when the local climate’s effect on cold aisle containment caused a literal cloud to form inside the building and begin raining. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these facilities that often receive tax breaks in remote towns but may stretch local grids. A “colocation” or “colo” (“CO-lo”) is one of these facilities that rents out space, in contrast to “enterprise” ones.
ANSWER: data centers [accept web farms or cloud computing centers or computing clusters or server arrays or server parks or similar answers; prompt on servers or warehouses; reject “supercomputers”]
[10e] The densest data center hub in the world is in this state’s Data Center Alley around Ashburn, which is part of this state’s Dulles Technology Corridor west of Arlington and Alexandria.
ANSWER: Virginia [or VA]
[10h] Everest Pipkin’s essay on the invisibility of data centers calls them examples of these anonymous spaces. Marc Augé’s (“oh-ZHAY’s”) book on the “anthropology of supermodernity” coined this term for spaces like hotels and airports.
ANSWER: non-places (Pipkin’s essay is “It Was Raining in the Data Center.”)
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