’Critical to our modern society’: How datacenters power everyday necessities
Despite the role datacenters play in so many aspects of people’s lives, most people don’t give them a second thought.
In Connemara, a mother chats with her child’s doctor via a computer screen. In a Waterford shop, the grocery shelves are stocked and more supplies are on the way. In Dublin, a student makes an online rent payment. In Cork, a small business owner dispatches orders to new customers in the Middle East.
All those moments — along with countless conveniences that pack daily life — nowadays happen with the help of datacenters. Purposely nondescript, these warehouses contain tens of thousands of interconnected computer servers plus the equipment needed to ensure the servers are always running, always available.
