Cloud Computing

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Some companies had no cloud policy s, you know, at least in in the early days as cloud was emerging. Ando: There were some legitimate concerns, some political concerns and some job worries. But i think also is what prevents me from being fooled. This applies even to things that seem soteric, like machine learning or gpt three. I'm seeing data centers. Others see artificial general intelligence is on the way. But what i'm seeing are computers in racks generating heat. That's why my question is, always, ok, fine, the mathematics is interesting,. You're not producing intelligence, but the mathematics isInteresting, asiven chomsky would say; tell me what

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.
In July, the network of Canadian telecom giant Rogers went down, leaving millions without service.

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