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page 385 c - looks like the warehouse district to me, where all the things that need warehousing are warehoused. Good work English language.

Server farm, East Wenatchee Washington, 2019.

Have you heard of a server farm?

Server farms are a collective of computer servers to run applications on the web. Server farms can process client requests (that could be you) in a quick and efficient away. Some tech companies have their own server farms to process the huge amount of requests that they get, and some even have several server farms around the country or world.

Server farms are generally located inside data centres and require a lot of cooling, as they can generate a lot of heat. Server farms allow for one server to fail without implications on the user; another identical server will be able to continue it’s work and process the request. 

Facebook have a data centre in Co. Meath, that operates 24 hours a day. It servers not just Ireland, but also contributes to how the UK and Europe access the web, social media, Netflix, etc. 

Rory Carroll in The Irish Times writes; “The cloud can create carbon: it is estimated that when the music video Despacito reached 5 billion streamed YouTube views in 2018, the energy consumption was equivalent to powering 40,000 US homes a year (it has now exceeded 6.5 billion views)...

Ireland’s data centres have a low profile. They tend to operate from anonymous-looking business parks with high-security perimeter fences and intruder detection alarms. A Google centre has colourful murals but the rest are grey and nondescript, with discreet signage.”

You can read the full article here.