Source: Christian Science Monitor
by Amelia Newcomb
“My ability to write this column is directly related to the subject of this week’s cover story. Why? Because I’m working online. I’m reading a digital copy of what staff writer Stephanie Hanes filed to her editors. I’m searching the web for some background here, a fact there. I map the location of a neighborhood Stephanie visited in seconds. All the while, I’m sitting at my desk, connected, like all of you, to an enormous world that is impossibly close at hand. It would be easy enough to think that an ethereal “cloud” makes this possible. But of course, it doesn’t. I, and you, are tethered as we work to massive concrete warehouses that form, as Stephanie elegantly puts it, ‘the physical backbone of our digital lives.’ For many people, these structures are as invisible as the internet itself.” (04/02/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2025/0402/data-center-cloud-stephanie-hanes