Fudge Sunday - And All Points In Between

A song, lyric, and tweets to connect it back to the edge, core, and cloud.

This issue is part 2 of a 5 part series

Consider that there are still arguably millions of other data centers from privately held data centers to colocation data centers to specific niche hosting provider data centers. Also, there are clever essays on what if scenarios that challenge the notion of everything going public cloud on a long enough timeline and coming back, via a [checks notes] Trillion Dollars repatriation, home to the core.

Consolidation will continue of course, but not always in the direction that a biased pundit might think. Further, not all data centers will ever achieve a hyperscale size, but they will likely become advantaged through the full democratization of hyperscale techniques, tooling, and telemetry.

Ultimately, any belief that only ever larger data centers will be built around the planet to be owned and operated by a small capital enriched number of companies is simply not clear. However, what is clear as edge, core, and cloud requirements shift, is this: the distributed edge data centers are going to happen slowly then seem to appear all at once.

More importantly, localized data centers are probably going to increase, and this makes sense if you’ve ever thought about where data is being created – the edges of a network are far more interesting than sports stadium sized data centers that show up on satellite imagery.

In fact, if you are looking for something if your data just left Chicago bound for New Orleans you could ask around… but I might have a suggestion.

Quote tweeting Techmeme meta summary is still one of my favorite pastimes

Now, imagine a timeline of getting open grid or edge telemetry to enrich these data sets as I called out in the first issue of this five part series…

To get to that kind of reality will require increased fascination with all things related to fabrication…

Along the way, the companies associated with the future might look different than the ubiquitous incumbency but that’s okay too

Where we find ourselves in a future data artisan economy (that is always on 24/7/365!) might be truly distributed – despite the best efforts of centralized incumbency that seeks to perpetuate the last industrial revolution by sequestering the workforce on a periodic basis

So as social becomes just media and media tries to become more social, it will be important to keep our collective sense of humor (if there can be one) by anchoring to the export of meme… or, if you will, ensuring access to the meme’s of production ;-)