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
If you do think there should be, the number is 202 7488000. If you dont, 202 7488001. A special line this morning to hear specifically from those who have recently lost their jobs, 202 7488002. You can send us a text, 202 7488003 is that number. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on , andl media, cspanwj facebook,. Facebook. You can start calling in now on those phone lines as we show you a chart about what congress and the president have approved so far from it comes to coronavirus relief. Thattrillion, including inst spending bill from back march, followed by the Families First Coronavirus Response act, the bulk of it coming from the , 2. 7 trillion, and the additional money approved in the paycheck protection program, additional money needed to heat that going last month. Of course, the unemployment numbers we learned on friday, stand like this as of april. 14. 7 jobless rate, 27 million in the month of april. Economic projections
Getler and when people do people get exposed to the virus they should selfquarantine and protect others from getting it getting it. Does it with a worker in at risk . Sec. Mnuchin one of the reasons why we are able to hear and know people have been in selfquarantine because of testing. I spoke to doctors who had vaccines in trials and i couldnt be more optimistic. When the president says he thinks we will have a vaccine by the end of the year, i think that is very important. The virals that are also in urgent. The American Public wants to know if they get these disease there are things that can protect him, including more ventilators, hospital supplies and better drugs. That sayare reports theres more consideration for stimulus checks. Is that on the table question mark is that on the table . Sec. Mnuchin is something that is on the table want to thank the congress for acting on an emergency basis. We now have 3 trillion we are putting into the economy. A lot of that is just getting in
President , what is the premise of your new book . It is that Digital Technology has become both a tool and a weapon, creating kinds of benefits and all kinds of challenges as well, and we have to grapple with both sides of the equation. Your book is essentially a world tour that begins in quincy, washington. Why . Because it is one of the data center capitals of the world, if you will. It is near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because it is 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, these mammoth buildings, more than 20 of them, filled with electrical generators, thousands of batteries, and mostly server computers. Everything we do almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud, which really means one of these data centers. Peter you have 100 of these in 20 countries . Brad more than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of th
Militarys testing capability, and chinas response to the pandemic. Good afternoon, everyone. The seats are starting to fill up. Good. I want to begin by expressing my gratitude to the more than 62,000 Service Members on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus, including over 3500 medical personnel staffing civilian facilities and embedded operations nationwide. Tomorrow marks the start of National Nurses week. We salute all nurses, military and civilian, who have served and are currently serving. Thanks to their efforts, we are encouraged to see the situation improving in several of the most impacted areas. In new york city, the Javits Centers remaining patients were discharged on friday, indicating stress on hospitals is subsiding. I had a conversation with mayor de blasio last friday. He called to express his thanks for what dod provided his city in a time of need and how warmly they were received by his civilian doctors and nurses. I said to pass along to the force, tho