Is Amazon Cooling the Warehouse Work?

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i thought it was really fascinating to get that description of the datus enters and of like, what that work was like. And there are a few like points that stood out to me. Like when we think about amazon as one of the main cloud providers,. with the amazon web services, a w s am like, it almost seemed similar, but different, in a way, to its warehouses.Like this industrial scale, really large, people are getting injuries. But then in the case of the day disenters, it has to be kept really cold for this computing. It seems like in the warehouses, amazon keeps it particularly warm for the robots that are in the warehouses

Paris Marx is joined by Dwayne Monroe to discuss what it’s like to work in a data center, how the cloud came to hold a dominant position, and the consequences of its control by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Dwayne Monroe is a cloud technologist and aspiring Marxist theorist of technology, with twenty years of experience architecting large-scale computational systems. Follow Dwayne on Twitter at @cloudquistador.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Dwayne wrote about cloud computing for Logic Magazine. He’s also written about a public cloud and the metaverse on his blog.
Amazon’s cloud infrastructure in the eastern United States experienced a major outage in December 2021.
Residents in various parts of the world have been questioning the logic of building data centers, including in the United States and New Zealand.
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