But these kind of buildings, known variously as telecom hotels, server farms and data centers, require enormous amounts of electricity to power the computers and air-conditioning systems, typically 10 times as much as a comparable office tower.
Facebook and Twitter still require physical assets in server farms.
Server farms don't create mass middle-class employment.
Meanwhile, Google is planning to put one of its server farms out in farm country: Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Server farms and shopping centres, for example, generate a lot of leftover heat.
It has fingers in almost every other area of technology, from fitness trackers to server farms.
We needed international offices, employed 150 people, used server farms and required lots of storage.
About 70percentt of Rackspace's revenue comes from managing server farms for individual companies.
The company does not disclose how many computers now populate its server farms.
The other is a capital-intensive method – say, a handful of technicians maintaining vast server farms.
Google and Microsoft have built huge cities to house their "server farms".
