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
Be a member of congress. We welcome suzanne spaulding. Also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all, i want to thank the cochairs and the two commissioners for their important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has some solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction and will be working hard to vault those and the ones evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law. They can be done through executive action. I would like to spend my time, enter my formal written statement into the record. I just want to talk about two of the commissions of recommendations. When i got here in the congress in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. It is not going away. But i remember the buzz word back then is we have to do something about this. We have made a number of attempts and quite honestly, we have made a fair amount of progress. My own sense
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
Infrastructure of the 21st century, these mammoth more than 20 of them, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands batteries, but, of course, mostly server computers. Everything we do almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud of theselly means one data centers. Peter and you have 100 of these in 20 countries, is that correct . Brad more than 20 countries. More than 100 data centers. Largestt is one of the but Companies Like google, amazon, facebook, apple, were more and more of these data centers. Its where were all storing our data. They become, among other things, the Largest Consumer of the world. In peter so if i send an email from Microsoft Outlook here at theoffice to somebody at office, does it have to go through that data center . Brad it doesnt have to. Can still use our software in a form where you store it on laptop or run it on your own server computer in your office. To the world has moved cloud over the last decade. Its far cheape