"It's really cool here!" After arriving at Tongren, Boss Jia yawned and said.
It was still August, the hottest time of the year. However, when Boss Jia arrived at Tongren, he had the urge to put on a coat. It was really too cold here.
"Mr. Jia, we have a place called Fan's Pure Mountain here. It's really beautiful. I can show you around. At the same time, we can also develop Fan's Pure Mountain, a treasure land that hasn't been developed yet. We can turn it into a first-class tourist attraction in the country!" The leader of Tongren said with a smile.
"It's a bit inappropriate to turn such a beautiful place like Fan's Pure Mountain into our Daqian production base!" Boss Jia laughed.
"What? You want to build a production base in Tongren?" The leader was shocked.
"Why? Can't I?" Boss Jia laughed.
"No, of course you can. But our Tongren …" The leader wanted to say something but stopped. In the end, he gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Jia, I believe you saw it when you came. Our Tongren doesn't have a highway yet. Only the national highway can pass through. However, the national highway hasn't been repaired for a long time. Many areas are simply … Mr. Jia, if you want to build a production base here, I'm afraid of the traffic. "
"Don't worry about the traffic. The construction of the base doesn't cost much money and materials. After the base is built, other than transporting some materials inside, we don't need much transportation capacity in a short period of time."
"I've seen the roads along the way. The roads in Tongren are a bit shabby. In fact, the roads are wide enough for transportation!"
"However, Tongren's communication is still a bit bad. Therefore, I think in the future, I will invest in building an information highway to help Tongren develop the Internet and let Tongren stand at the forefront of the world!" Boss Jia said to the leader with a smile. However, the leader was confused. What was an information highway? He didn't understand at all!
"Forget it. Please tell me, where is the coolest place in Tongren? At the same time, the highest mountain and the most suitable place to dig a cave?" Boss Jia asked again.
"…"
In the next few days, Boss Jia, accompanied by the local staff of Tong Ren, went through all kinds of mountains in Tong Ren. They visited almost all the mountains in Tong Ren. In the end, Boss Jia took a fancy to a mountain called Fu Ying Mountain. Although this mountain was not very high, it covered a large area and was connected with several other mountains around it. In the end, Boss Jia pointed at the mountain and said, "This is it. I choose this place!"
[PS: Crouching Eagle Mountain is just a casual glance on the map. The exact situation is not clear. If it does not match the actual situation, everyone can ignore it.]
"You chose this place!" The surrounding leaders of Tong Ren were completely dumbfounded. There were no proper roads within a hundred miles of Fu Ying Mountain.
Moreover, the mountain range was endless, and there were only three villages nearby.
When they arrived at Fu Ying Mountain, they first drove on the muddy road in the morning and then climbed the mountain path in the afternoon before they finally arrived at Fu Ying Mountain. Boss Jia actually wanted to build a base here. Wasn't this nonsense?
"Leader, I know what you are worried about. In fact, I chose this place because I intend to build the first super data center in Hua Xia … No, in the world. In the next ten years, I will install more than 100,000 super servers here. This place will also become one of the most important information nodes in South China!" Boss Jia said with a smile. He finally revealed his true intentions.
That's right. Boss Jia wanted to build a huge data center here. Just like Tencent, Ali, and almost all the other high-tech companies in the future, almost all of them had installed their own servers here.
The future was the internet era. To an internet company, the biggest cost was not the cost of manpower, but the cost of servers.
The higher the traffic of an internet company, the more servers the company would need. A small website might only need to rent a small server.
However, a large website would need a few servers to connect to the internet. For a super internet company like Tencent, it would need thousands or even tens of thousands of servers.
In the future, when Nokia entered the cloud data center stage and started to engage in cloud computing, it would need 100,000 servers.
With so many servers, the cost of purchasing them would be high, but it would be fine as long as money was spent. However, how to maintain the normal operation of the servers was a huge problem.
First of all, the servers required a large amount of electricity. The electricity required for 100,000 servers might be higher than the electricity of a large city. In that case, the cost of electricity would be very high.
Although the infrastructure in Guizhou Province was very bad, because of the mountains and rivers in Guizhou Province, the hydropower generation in Guizhou Province was very developed. There were hundreds of hydropower generation stations in Guizhou Province. Guizhou Province could be said to be rich in electricity. However, in the era when the national high-voltage grid had not been built, no matter how much electricity Guizhou Province generated, it would only be a waste. It could not even be sold to other provinces.
That's why Guizhou Province's electricity bills were very cheap. Industrial electricity prices were the same as civilian electricity prices. If Daqian's data center was built in Guizhou Province, they could save at least a few billion RMB in electricity bills.
Other than that, the most important thing about the server was the problem of heat dissipation. With so much power consumed, it was easy to imagine the amount of heat generated. The servers were basically gathered together. Without a strong heat dissipation ability, the service would collapse due to the high temperature in a short period of time.
That's why the servers must be in a low-temperature environment. In the future, Microsoft, Google, and other companies will throw their servers into the sea to dissipate the heat.
Although this might seem cool, it will cause a lot of problems in the future. The servers will be damaged, and it's better to put them on the surface to dissipate heat.
Guizhou Province's average annual temperature is 12 to 16 degrees Celsius. At the same time, Guizhou Province is very windy, especially in the mountainous areas. The wind is blowing almost every day.
This is the natural heat dissipation system. The heat generated by the servers will be dissipated by the low-temperature wind, and it saves a lot of heat dissipation costs.
Guizhou Province has many mountains, and they only need to dig through one of the mountains and place the servers in the middle of the mountain. They can save on the cost of building the data center that year.
Next, there is the issue of land prices. Hmmm … the land here is no different from giving it away for free.
Other than that, there are no signs of human habitation here. Most people will not appear near the data center, and if they appear, there is a high chance they are up to no good. This will prevent people with ulterior motives from entering the data center.
That's why Guizhou Province is the best place to build a data center. Daqian's future data center will be built in Guizhou Province. Ten years later, this small Mount Fu Ying will handle more than 10% of Hua Xia's traffic.
But isn't it a little too early to build a data center in Guizhou Province?
The current network technology was still not developed enough, and the traffic in China was less than a few billion times that in the future. The total number of netizens in China was less than 5,000. It was enough to find a house in a big city and set up one or two servers. It seemed that there was no need to set up a big data service center in a province more than ten years in advance.
If they wanted to build a big data service center here, the cost of clearing the mountain and pulling the network cable alone might be as high as tens of billions of yuan.
This is not wrong. Whether it is Penguin or Alibaba, their initial data centers are located in a small space in a big city. It's fine to take it slow.
But Boss Jia's idea is simple. Since there is a data center in the future, Boss Jia will build it in advance. It doesn't matter if it is built in advance!
More importantly, Boss Jia clearly remembers that when the internet era just started, there were all kinds of server problems that caused lag, disconnection, and other problems that greatly affected the user experience. These were all because the servers were not enough or the construction was too bad.
As long as Da Qian completed the layout in advance, then Da Qian's network products would not have the problem of server lag. This was a huge advantage in the Internet era. Even an idiot would know.
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