So what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century . These mammoth buildings, more than 20 filled with electrical generators, hundreds of thousands of batteries that are Server Computers and everything we do almost every day is accessing or storing data in the cloud for a data center. You have 100 of these and 20 countries . More than 20 countries more than 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of the largest google amazon facebook and apple we all build more and more of these data centers its where we store their data so they become the Largest Consumer of electricity in the world. Host if i send an email from outlook to the office does it have to go to the data center . It doesnt have to you can still use our software in the form to store it on your own laptop or on your own server computer in your office. But the world has moved to the cloud over the last decade. It is far cheaper, secure, you have the latest technology and not upgrade yourself and rely on microsoft Cybersecuri
Of your new book, tools and weapons . Its Digital Technology has become both a tool and a weapon. Its creating all kinds of benefits is challenges as well we have to grapple it both sides of that equation. Your book is a world tour that starts in quincy washington why quincy washington . We chose quincy washington because its one of the data center capitals of the world if you will its near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power this both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of if you will, what is really becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century. These mammoth buildings filled with generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries, but of course mostly server computers. Everything we do, almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud is really one of these data centers. And you have 100 of these in 20 countries . More than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of the largest but Com
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About election security. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. Donors. Unding from entitledote an article friendly fire, the number one threat to American Election security. Tell us what you mean by friendly fire. Most of the focus has been people outside of the u. S. Trying to interact with our elections. But one thing i realized we were not talking about was that cybersecurity focuses on both offense and defense. We have not been talking about the threat that comes from not having appropriate training for our own security and poll workers. Dowhat type of training election workers get and what type should they get when it comes to cybersecurity . Thats a great question. Unfortunately, there is no uniform standard for training so it really depends across your state or even local county. This can wildly vary depending on where you are located. Most are trained by local election officers. This training can vary all over the place, because of the shift to protectl need against cyb
Okay. We are back. Next, we are going to go to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. Rose, for five minutes. Thank you to director chopra for being here today. Director chopra, last month, the New York Times ran an article with the headline calling you, quote, wall streets most hated regulator. And that bankers believe that you are a regulator gone rogue. Do you agree with the characterization that you are wall streets most hated regulator and a regulator gone rogue . Certainly not, but you know, you will have to ask them. We try to make sure that all of our work is with the Public Interest in mind, including with Financial Institutions. I want to say this to you. I feel this strongly about all of our federal regulators. In my view, your first responsibility is to help those who you regulate comply with the regulations. That your entire approach to that regulated community that you deal with should be to empower, enable, inform, educate, facilitate their compliance with the regulations tha