Today’s society navigates in a sea of data and information. From the moment the sun rises, most of the population is unaware that it is communicating in real time with a server hosted in a Data Center, which is part of a network capable of storing and interconnecting large volumes of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether it’s the time reflected on your smart speaker, the digital alarm clock, the first news of the day appearing in your cell phone notifications or the trending song on Spotify, everything goes through a Data Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To get an idea of the immense amount of information managed by these infrastructures, we can compare it to the size it would occupy in a movie format. One zettabyte is equivalent to approximately 22 trillion high-definition movies. To put this figure in context, according to a report by the consulting firm IDC<\/a>, the volume of data will reach 175 zettabytes by 2025, which is 175 times the amount of information generated in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Data centers are, therefore, a very important infrastructure for society, housing and sustaining the Internet network as we know it. Without them, our daily lives would be very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the context, in this article we will take a look at all the occasions throughout the day in which we consciously or unconsciously connect to a Data Center to obtain information that we then manage and process from our smart devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As soon as we wake up, many of us already make use of a Data Center. After deactivating the alarm on our cell phones, we open our social network profiles, check the latest messages on platforms such as Whatsapp, which currently sends more than 100 billion messages a day worldwide<\/a>, check the first emails of the morning or even listen to a podcast while having breakfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then we use this network again when we check the news in an online newspaper, or listen to streaming music while waiting for the next train on the way to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At work, we have access to a whole series of interconnected online tools that allow us to interact internally and externally with colleagues, customers and suppliers. We have already normalized having meetings on video call platforms, editing files in real time in the cloud or sharing large documents in a matter of minutes with a single download link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At lunchtime, delivery platforms are a very popular option for ordering food at home or in the office, a tool that also draws on these infrastructures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After leaving work, it is common to make use of entertainment platforms such as YouTube, Google’s platform where more than 2 billion users log in every month<\/a>, Netflix, Prime Video or HBO to entertain us on the way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When we get home, asking for music or a news summary from Alexa or Siri means getting data from a Data Center, just like playing our favorite online game or using the Smart TV while relaxing on the couch.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDiary of a digital citizen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Connected from early morning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Office suites<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Digital Entertainment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n