Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin on this election day markets are continuing the rally we got on monday were close to session highs right now. Dow is up 665. Best day since june 5th for the dow and s p 500. Best breadth since april 8th nasdaq and s p 500 erased their october loss, jon, as were seeing things like yields go higher as well and the dollar weaken which is another sign that some of the imbedding on emerging markets going out of this election. Yeah, carl. Looking at tech overall and particularly big tech, its interesting the gap between microsoft and amazon lagging behind apple, thats narrowing a bit. Remember, you had apple above 2 trillion in market cap and around 1. 5 trillion now thats come down apple is below 2 trillion those two are still around 1. 5 alphabet lagging all of those year to date so what is surging today tesla is up 5. 5 sales force, cisco, micron, dell, if you look at enterprise space, tho
Super bowl sunday without thinking of katy perrys have time performance. What but just in timberlake and groupsy . The song was katy perry. I knew what you were doing. That is what todd piro does. Didnt protect me that time. Jillian you are on your. House democrats approve a Budget Resolution paving the way for congress to pass covid19 relief bill without republicans. Shannon Griff Jenkins has the plan. So much of that bipartisan unity, they are pushing ahead with ago a little on strategy has 2 trillion relief package, the house approve the Budget Resolution yesterday which sets of a vote in the senate as soon as today where Party Leaders are at odds over lack of unity. We are going to Work Together with this president , we are united as one for big bold package working with our republican friends when we can. The new president talks a lot about unity but his white house staff and congressional leadership are working with a different playbook. This as the president offers his support f
Washington. Why quincy, washington . Guest my coauthor and i chose quincy, washington because its one of the data center capitals of the world, if you will. Its near the Columbia River and data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power in both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of if you will, of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century and these mammoth buildings more than 20 of them filled with Electrical Generators and hundreds or thousands of batteries but of course, mostly Server Computers and everything we do in almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud and it means one of those data centers. Host you have 100 of these in 20 countries, is that correct . Guest more than 20 countries, more than a hundred data centers and microsoft is one of the largest but Companies Like google and amazon, facebook and apple were all building more and more of these data centers and it is where we are storing our data and th
Your book is a world tour that begins in quincy washington my coauthor and i chose quincy washington because of the Data Center Capital the world its near the Columbia River are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power that is cheap and clean, we take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, the mammoth buildings, more than 20 of them filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries but of course mostly supercomputers, everything that we do, almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud which is in one of the data centers. Your 100 of these and 20 countries is that correct. More than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers, microsoft is one of the largest but cavities like google, amazon, facebook, apple were all building more and more of these data centers, its were restoring our data they become among other things the Largest Consumer of electricity in the world. So if i send an em
Of the Washington Post for the idea for essays and criticism and i am very lucky to be here tonight with the author of the information trade. Alexis is the deputy of the city where she runs a policy lab to get vendors to compete who can devise the best programs to include social welfare of the citizens of new york the adjunct professor of communications at Columbia University and spent a couple of decades with extremely intensively as a member of the staff at the state department and also thinking very deeply which is so clear from this book which i admire. [applause] so just to jump right in this book maybe we will start by taking a minute and tell us why you thought we needed to do categories. Thank you for coming. Its wonderful to see you here. The best way to describe is to talk about how i came upon the idea to write the book in the first place. In 2015 there were a number of terrorist attacks and in november the largest attacks killed 130 people after they were organized on socia