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because it s one of the data center capitals of the world if you will. it s near the columbia river. data centers are being built there because it s close to hydroelectric power that s 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. these mammoth buildings, with an 20 of them, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries but, of course, mostly server computers. everything we do. almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud which means one of these data centers. host: you have 100 of these in 20 countries? caller: more than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers. microsoft is one of the largest but companies like google, amazon, facebook facebook, apple, we are all building more and more of these data centers. it s where we are all storing our data. they become the largest consumer of electricity in the world. host: so if i sent an e-mai ....
senate aging committee. the committee will come to order. good morning. today, the special committee on aging is releasing its updated 2020 fraud book. it lists the top ten scams that have been reported to our committee over the past year. the good news is that the notorious irs impersonation scam, which had been the top scam reported to the committee for five consecutive years, has fallen off dramatically.p it used to be number one, now it s number seven. still a problem, but public awareness has certainly helped to decrease the prevalence of that scam. unfortunately, the social security impersonation scam, the topic of this morning s hearing, has risen to take its place. reports of the ssa scam barely registered as recently as 2017, but then it began to take off, cracking the top ten scans reported to our committee s fraud hotline in 2018 and becoming the number one reported scam last year as shown on the chart displayed on the monitors. this scam has resulted in ....