Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Searching something as enormous as the world wide web can only be accomplished by a huge number of computers. The large fraction of computers operated by large internet companies—like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or Twitter—are located in data centers. Data centers are specifically designed to hold large numbers of computers. That design goal produces a specific set of challenges, particularly related to power and heating.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
Searching something as enormous as the world wide web can only be accomplished by a huge number of computers. The large fraction of computers operated by large internet companies—like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or Twitter—are located in data centers. Data centers are specifically designed to hold large numbers of computers. That design goal produces a specific set of challenges, particularly related to power and heating.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
