How Do They Do It

[Bazile]

Watched an episode of 'how do they do it '

This one was about Facebook and the number of servers,amongst other things  it requires .

There are acres of servers and still they need more , requiring the construction  of more buildings for the weekly arrival of servers .

Truly an eye opener as to what a massive technical infrastructure it is.

I don't know much about these things , but wondered if the technology will be there in the near future to reduce the number of servers that's required to run these tech companies ?

[ToraToraTora]

Yes computing power increases exponentially over time. Well has done up to now. So yes ever more powerful CPUs will be available. The holy grail is Quantum computing which is very much experimental at the moment. Facebook etc also needs huge amounts of storage space and that too grows at a similar rate to CPU power. The only reason we have "AI" is because of ever more powerful CPUs and storage meaning that previously non viable algorithms can be executed. There is no such thing as AI really but society has irrevocably called it that.

[bhg481]

I wonder if the climate fanatics, such as Just Stop Oil, realise just how much power is consumed by the servers they use to organise their protests.

[ToraToraTora]

If you want to look at wasted lecky have a look at the bit coin miners.