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
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
Morgan brennan, jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs all around the board. Dow, s p 500, nasdaq, but well begin with news regarding ford forward looks to do apples to apples with tesla. Elon musk tweeting a response, quote, bring it on and calling into question the physics behind musks video of the tesla towing the ford f 150. Is this really where we are . My mom might be watching, i am going to keep it clean, this is a classic measuring contest if ever there was one. Morgan, do you know of any woman watching this tug of war with any kind of great interest mary barra is probably not even watching this. This is classic like testosterone driven man versus man type thing. The nerd truck narrative lives. The truck will be sold to nerds, right . Thats the niche product theyre aiming for i wont call it nerds, but if you look at the numbers, the number two, two top states for electric vehicle registrations, use that as a proxy for tesla, california and new york.
The premarket. It is down two and a quarter percent on mcdonalds right now. Under armor under investigation, the Company Reportedly facing a federal probe over its Accounting Practices. How it recorded sales, stock is plunging this morning on that news. Under armor shares down 16 and three quarters percent. U. S. China trade optimism fueling the broader averages. President trump in Constant Contact with chinese president xxijinping. A deal could be reached this month. Futures indicating a gain in the p p triple digits at the start of trading this morning. S p 500 is up 15, nasdaq higher by 51. Mornings with maria begins right now. Youre the only thing i know. So wont you take, wont you take me home. Maria good monday morning. We have a big show this morning. Joining the conversation, lee car first here. Cfra director of Equity Research, ken leon is here and mitch rochell. We have a big shakeup going on at mcdonalds this morning. The Company Fired the ceo over a consensual relationship
Care, but also the costs of that care and the sort of wrenching decisions we have to make. Thats what we are trying to address with. Health maintenance organizations 40 years ago. And i think thats where we have to turn today. Great. Thank you. We have to wrap things up. Unfortunately. The Volker Alliance is a nonpartisan nonprofit founded by the former head of the Federal Reserve board of governors paul volcker and dedicated to advancing his vision of an empowered Public Sector workforce. Sometimes in very nicely with the theme of the day. I want to thank fill up and mr. Is a good friend and that helps for hosting us today at columbia and we have a great set panelists for this third panel we have two people joining us on zoom Neil Ferguson and, jen parker and up here we have paul light to my right, to my left, and then richard roth joining us. So well turn first to neil on zoom. He is the milbank family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and also a senior f