Computers and the Internet

With a building or this nature, their are so many trades involved, many of them having no direct connection with computers.
It would start off with he client specifying the Data needs.
A lead architect would be appointed, who would spend several weeks visiting existing existing sites to get a first overview of what was involved. Taking particular interest in areas such as the cooling system shown in my picture.and the overall power requirements of the building.
He would then sketch a first conceptual design.
Now, the companies nominated to supply and commission the servers, along with the air conditioning and cooling specialists would get involved, along with electrical engineers to take care of the power requirements of everything involved. These people would give sizes, weights and access requirements (both for installation and servicing) or their respective equipment.
It would be unlikely that electricity could be drawn from the local supply, so an 11,000.volt substation would be detailed and sketched in and a decision would be taken whether to locate it inside or adjacent to the building. (for security reasons, a company such as Google would most likely want it inside).
Next a structural engineer would be appointed to design the framework of the building and floors that can support the loads.

I could go on to write several hundred pages on the path to completion. The design of the substation alone would be 50 plus.
Hopefully I have partially answered your question.and you will realize that the people programming the servers would not have the first clue about the regenerative turbine pumps in the cooling system, the chemistry of preventing an outbreak of legionnaires disease from the cooling towers, or the path of electricity to his servers from the national grid.

I have now spent 50 years in the design and running of theaters and film studios, including some work as a consultant on the Sydney opera house project in my early days.
I would need another lifetime to fully understand how those servers work.
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I was going to Google. Brings new meaning to "search engine" now.

 

Ended up getting the Amazon Fire HD8. Pretty cool

 

Oh wow! So glad you decided on the Amazon Fire. Have fun!

 

All tablets use flash, which is solid state storage. And they all use ARM processors, so they're just big smartphones.

Because of this, I'd recommenced the brands that make the better smartphones. Samsung, Google, Apple etc...

 

Thanks Lode

 

As you may have noticed from my later replies, I have limited experience on tablets and I did not realize that they all have integral solid state drivers on a single motherboard.
With their lack of serviceability, Mike's purchase of a moderately low priced tablet seemed wise, considering it's intended use.
I have built small business servers for little more than the cost of an I-pad. Do you think that the £1000+ cost is justified, unless you are intending using it to land on the moon.?
I heard earlier today, that Apple are expecting their bubble to burst within a few years and their future plans and going to aim towards upgrade ability, rather than the current 'throw away' trend.

The thing that I most like about HF, is that we can have interesting dialog with other intelligent members.

 

Mike's purchase was a good one I suspect. I've gotten a Fire for a family member before. The only thing I didn't like about it was there was a lot of bloatware, but Samsung has the same problem.

I think well made but overpriced for the little apple sticker can be said of about all Apple hardware since they switched to Intel a decade ago. IPhones, IPad's, IMac's. But I'm in the minority at my own software shop, at least when it comes to phones and tablets. The planned obsolescence is probably one of the things I liked the least about Apple products, so if they stop actively doing that, they might have a product I'd consider.

 

I have the Kindle Fire as well. And if you want google play apps you can always sideload google play. It's as good as the other pricier tablets in my opinion. I even got mine on sale during the holidays so it was a steal.