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
Weapons traitor to Digital Technology has become both a tool and weapon. Its great all kinds of benefits but all kinds of challenges as well and where to grapple with both sides to that equation. Host your book is essentially a world tour that begins in quincy, washington. Why there . Guest my coauthor and i chose quincy because its one of the data center capitals of the world. Its near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power that is both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of what is really becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century. These mammoth buildings, more than 20, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousans of batteries but 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. Host you have 100 of these in 20 countries . Guest more than 20 countries come with an 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of t
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
Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship
The aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship was involved in every effort