Servers to the internet are like air to humans.
Everything on the web is hosted on a server. Servers to the internet are like air to humans – you can’t really see it but you can’t live without it. So we decided to pay respect to these invisible heroes with a short list of facts about servers and their cosy data centres.
- 160 million gallons of water went into cooling Apple’s data centres around the world during 2015, according to the technological giant.
Folks, that’s about 1/5th of what new yorkers consume DAILY in drinkable water. It’s also over 3 million times your average fish tank.
- $730,000 is the average cost of a single data centre outage today. The Delta Airlines lost nearly $150 million due to а data centre outage.
In comparison, that’s about 6,000 years worth of Netflix subscriptions.
- 70% of the web hosting market is held by the largest cloud provider in the world - Amazon Web Services. The largest cloud provider in the world is Amazon Web Services.
In 2015 Amazon Web Services disclosed that it has over 1 million active customers every month in over 190 countries. In the last quarter of the same year, AWS has a run rate of 9.6 billion.
- 9 years is the average lifespan of a data centre, according to Host.AG.
The hosting provider Host.AG deployed its first servers in 2014 in its EU-based data centre and has been using state-of-the-art technologies since.
- 200 goats have been employed by Google to mow the grass surrounding their HQ and data centres.
Google is notorious for its innovative/wacky ideas and ‘laid back’ practices. We only hope the goats are also covered for dental.
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