Today, practically all of our actions generate a large amount of data and information and all that data must be stored in one place : it is in data centers or data centers . Without going any further, about 188 million emails are sent around the world every minute , 11,280 emails per hour, 270,720 emails per day … A figure that is dizzying, right? And these are just common emails. Imagine the large amount of data that moves around the planet every day and is stored on the network. Where does all that data go? Where are they stored? Does the location of a data center matter?
Data centers are located in the most unexpected places and their location is not trivial. It is not random. Its location is a key decision on many levels and, although many are located in ordinary locations, there are some located in rather peculiar places, such as a mine in Norway, underwater, in the Arctic Circle or in a church of Finland.
In this information and data society, with more and more people with access to the Internet (in Spain alone there were already 4 million people this last year) and, according to the We Are Social and Hootsuite report that they presented to At the beginning of 2020, 2019 had a not inconsiderable figure of 4,540 million , that is, 59% of the world population (the previous report for 2019 showed a figure of 4,388 million Internet users, with a penetration of 57%).
And this figure will not stop increasing with the arrival of 5G and the extension of the internet of things, which will undoubtedly favor an increase in the volume of data throughout the planet, which represents a challenge of storage and space. for global data centers. And the further they are from the end user, the more distance the data will have to travel and therefore the higher latency, hence it is important that they are located close to the user and not vice versa.
But, what are those unusual places where our data is stored?
