Facebook is currently in the process of building a "town" on the Arctic Circle to support all of its computer servers, which would use as much electricity as a city of 50,000 people.
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Earthlings Consume a Lot of Internet Data
In 2008, Internet surfing human beings consumed nearly ten billion terabytes of data. For the record, the largest hard drive widely available at retail is two terabytes. Just two.
Read More »T-Mobile Got The Shit Hacked Out Of It
T-Mobile is confirming today that a hacker (or group of hackers) broke into its systems and pretty much stole every last goddamned file that wasn’t nailed down to the theoretical floor. The hackers themselves posted a message to SecLists.org detailing what they had done and the damage is absolutely brutal. Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We ...
Read More »Google On The High Seas
We live in an age where the government watches with a careful eye to ensure no companies get into risky antitrust activities. Google has been under watch for a year or two now and it continues to expand at the rate of a gas giant. Now, according to reports, Google is considering putting a ton of a servers out to ...
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