What is Data Center: Before your phone's 2GB data gets wasted, know what is Data Center?

OpenAI has planned to set up a data center in India. This is an opportunity for India to move forward in the field of AI and technology, especially when US President Donald Trump has said that American companies should remain confined to their country. Anyway, amid the news of the establishment of the data center, know what a data center is, how it works, and what its benefits are? Also, it will increase water consumption. Let's know about that too.

What is a Data Center?

There is a data center to store, process, and manage data. It has computer systems, servers, storage devices, and networking devices, which work to keep the data safe. Understand it like this that just like books are arranged and kept systematically in a library, people come here to read or borrow books, similarly, in a data center, data is stored on the server. In simple words, a data center is a place where all the data of the internet world, like websites, apps, videos, photos, and emails, is stored.

What is the use of a data center for you? (What is the use of a data center?)
The servers of the data center work 24/7, so that whenever you watch YouTube videos or Netflix on your phone, or search for something on Google, you get the information immediately. Whenever you watch a movie on Netflix, that movie is streamed from the server of the data center to your device. The information about the product you see on an online shopping site is stored in the data center. Usually, people save their photos in Google Photos or data in Google Drive. Now the question is, if the data is not saved in your phone, then where is it saved? The answer is - 'data center'.

A lot of water consumption in the data center
Data centers consume a lot of electricity. However, nowadays emphasis is also being laid on building green data centers. These data centers work on solar or wind energy. A lot of water is used to store files in the data center. This water cools the servers of the data center. Oxford University's Department of Engineering and Science said that a small 1 megawatt data center uses 26 million liters of water every year. The data center that OpenAI is going to set up in India can have a capacity of 1 gigawatt.

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