There's a lot of stuff going around about datacenters, so I decided to do a quick tour yesterday of some of the datacenters in the Salt Lake Valley. Some are indeed quite large, but there are a bunch of smaller ones too - and they are not always where you think!

All of these are publicly known, and you can find them (and ones in your own area) at https://www.datacentermap.com/ .

Let's start with a datacenter that I go by all the time! It's across the street from my grocery store in downtown #SLC. It's listed as a colocation facility; datacenters are famously secretive about who their tenants are, but we can guess that it probably hosts servers belonging to nearby businesses, especially ones that want their storage, etc. nearby, but don't want to have to maintain a secure, cooled room. Given the number of banks that have headquarters nearby, I'd bet at least some of them are customers.

This is a fairly little guy, with apparently 16k square feet of floorspace and 1.6MW of power.

You know what the most prestigious place you can hang your art is?

Where people will see it.

Just got my show hung up at the Berkeley Iron Works climbing gym. I am artist of the month through January! Not what most people think of as an art exhibition venue, but a lot of people will see my pictures and get to enjoy them, which is what matters.

The only downside is that you have to be a member, or buy a day pass, or come in with a member on a free "bystander pass". Iron Works is part of a network of gyms that share membership, so if you are a member of another gym, your membership may cover it.

I'll be doing a reception sometime next week, time TBA.

#Art #LandscapePhotography #ArtShow

new article by claudiu papasteri on the import of hajin lee’s "outside the board: diary of a professional go player" in the unique perspective and insight it offers.

also available in german translation from brett und stein verlag.

#gogame #gameofgo #囲碁 #바둑 #围棋

https://gomagic.org/outside-the-board-diary-of-a-professional-go-player-by-lee-hajin-a-k-a-haylee/