The name "Blacklight Biotechnology" spread like wildfire along with the news of the four billion dollar contract with Facebook.
For the first time, countless people focused their attention on this little-known small company. What followed was the rapid spread of the product Little X Translation Assistant.
It was more effective than Xia Yin's tens of millions of advertising.
More importantly, the contract Chen Chen signed with Facebook was an exclusive platform license. This meant that only Facebook users did not need to pay any fees. Chen Chen could still charge other individual users.
Therefore, taking advantage of this public opinion effect, Little X Translation Assistant finally adopted a monthly membership fee mechanism.
The membership price was set at 25 yuan per month.
If one wanted a discount, they could choose to recharge for six months at a time. It was only 120 yuan, a discount of 30 yuan.
The best discount was the annual membership. A one-time recharge of 200 yuan could be used for a year, a discount of 100 yuan.
In addition, new users could also enjoy a 15-day free trial period. At the same time, every time a user shared and successfully promoted a new user to register an account, they would receive an additional three days of free use.
This was the price for users in Mainland China. As for other continents, it would increase or decrease in proportion to the local economic level.
Just a few days after Chen Chen reached an agreement with Facebook, Ye Dongmei, an employee of Blacklight Biotechnology, was found guilty of misconduct and accepting bribes during her tenure as a manager's assistant. She was subsequently fired by Blacklight Biotechnology.
Chen Chen used the company's name to buy an IDC data center in the Shangdu Industrial Park that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
The so-called data center was the Internet.
Based on the Internet network, it provided information collection, storage, processing, and other services for Internet companies.
Take Xia Yin's father's web-based game company as an example:
After a new user registered for Radiance Corporation's game, how should Radiance Corporation record the user's game information so that the next time the user logged in, there would be no embarrassing loss of data?
Under normal circumstances, Radiance Corporation had two choices:
First: Build their own server to support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of user visits at any moment.
This required building a server from scratch, at least a computer room. The computer room must also have a sufficient heat dissipation system. Add the cost of professional maintenance personnel, it would cost a lot.
Second: Hand over the task of storing information to a data center. The company itself only needed to focus on the development and maintenance of the game.
To put it simply, a data center was a public computer room specifically used to store the network information of various companies.
This was the so-called cloud server.
The one Chen Chen bought was a data center with old equipment, frequent outages, severe data delays, and a series of other problems. It was on the verge of closure.
In terms of scale, this data center was already considered large. There were eight computer rooms and more than 4,000 servers. Each computer room was 10 × 50 meters in size. Including the office space, the entire building covered an area of 5,000 square meters.
It was originally one of the data divisions under the Central Continent's Public Enterprise Telecommunications. Due to the long history of its establishment, many of its equipment had deteriorated to the point where it could no longer be upgraded. It could no longer keep up with the times.
Moreover, according to TIA's classification, this data center only had the most basic [Tier
It had also lost its competitiveness among the countless newly built advanced data centers.
Therefore, Chen Chen only spent 20 million to buy it from Telecom, including the remaining two years of the land lease.
After the purchase, Chen Chen did not immediately upgrade or replace the old server equipment. Instead, he first purchased a transformer.
Initially, Chen Chen wanted to buy a regional transformer. However, considering that the installation of such a transformer might cause abnormal local electricity consumption and attract the attention of the government, he only bought a 10000 KVA, 35KV all-copper oil-immersed transformer in the end.
When the truck transported the transformer back, Chen Chen discovered that this transformer alone was the size of a room.
This transformer was three times the capacity of the original transformer in the data center.
In truth, the power consumption of the data center's servers was secondary. The biggest power consumption was the cooling of the computer room.
According to the power consumption ratio given by the data center market: the server power consumption accounted for 40% of the total power consumption, the cooling accounted for 55%, and the remaining power and lighting accounted for about 5%.
A data center like this required a 3000KVA transformer to fully supply it.
Now, it was only a three-fold increase. It should not attract the attention of the power station, right?
Chen Chen rubbed his chin and pondered.
The best way to power the USB drive was to build power plants in other continents.
For example, the Indian Continent or the African Continent. The government environment there could provide a great degree of freedom for Chen Chen, unlike now where he had to tread on thin ice in everything he did.
However, the price of building a power plant was astronomical. Previously, Chen Chen could not afford it.
However, with the recent 4 billion USD from Facebook, he had the capital to give it a try.
However, distant water could not quench a present thirst. The construction of a power plant would take at least years, so it could not be rushed for now.
Xia Yin could not understand Chen Chen's trickery at all.
He could have chosen to rent a cloud server, but Chen Chen insisted on spending a large sum of money to buy an old data center. Other than the land deed and the building, the antique servers inside should have been packed up and sold as scrap metal long ago.
However, Chen Chen was the boss. After several attempts of persuasion to no avail, although Xia Yin was furious, she could only go along with Chen Chen's wishes.
Not only that, but a few days later, Chen Chen spent a huge sum of money to upgrade the expensive liquid cooling system of the entire data center. At the same time, he replaced all the servers and sold all the old servers for scrap metal.
Xia Yin thought, "What the f * ck?"
While renovating, Chen Chen redesigned the power system. Not only did he replace the transformer, but he also built a main control room next to the transformer that looked like an iron bucket.
The main control room not only controlled the power system of the entire data center, but Chen Chen also built the main control room into a home structure of over a hundred square meters with two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen, and one bathroom.
The entire company could not understand what was going on.
Half a month later, the main control room was completed. Chen Chen immediately moved the furniture and daily necessities and moved in himself.
Everyone who knew about this was dumbfounded. The only explanation they could come up with was that this was probably a quirk of the rich...
In the end, Chen Chen lived alone in this ten-million-dollar mansion that was renamed "Blacklight Biotechnology Data Center".
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