I've been looking for datacenter tech job. With how many are being built rn I thought it would be easier. Guess there's a lot of them being built but none near there, or are companies being secretive about that, staffing internally? Am I looking in the wrong places ? (Usual job hunting sites, linkedin)
cavemandaveman 59 seconds ago [-]
Microsoft is listing positions on their public job board (I know because I'm nosy and they're building a big data center complex a few miles from me). They look like good jobs for the area. A couple pay over $100K and only require a high school diploma for what looks to be essentially security guard roles.
ImJasonH 14 minutes ago [-]
When I was at Google I built https://gcping.com/ for fun to measure latency to each cloud region. I'm honestly surprised it's still up!
gradus_ad 41 minutes ago [-]
Surprised at how few there are...
kevin_nisbet 23 minutes ago [-]
I was confused at first but it seems like the site lists for google products only, doesn't seem to list some of the regions google cloud is available in (such as nothing in shown in Canada). But scrolling down it has a link to Google cloud regions.
johannes1234321 24 minutes ago [-]
I assume that's only their own data centers, not where they rent space in other data centers.
BadBadJellyBean 30 minutes ago [-]
And none of the on the continents of Africa or Australia.
jeffbee 25 minutes ago [-]
Nobody lives there. Ten times more people live in Indonesia.
andsoitis 18 minutes ago [-]
>> Africa
> Nobody lives there
Africa has just under 20% of the world's population.
mlh496 17 minutes ago [-]
Interesting. Not a single data center in California.
cavemandaveman 19 seconds ago [-]
Cost prohibitive?
jharohit 48 minutes ago [-]
not really sure its a wise choice to disclose datacenters anymore publicly. Just increases attack vector and not very value adding to people. most customers care about latency and as long as you can point to a region where you are its enough
3eb7988a1663 39 minutes ago [-]
Surely anyone with an interest could find this through various means.
Also easily found potential military targets: power generation, water treatment, hospitals, schools, government buildings, etc.
0xcafefood 46 minutes ago [-]
Is it actually possible to hide the locations of datacenters? At least large ones?
iAMkenough 27 minutes ago [-]
Kinda hard to hide them when you choose to build them in people’s backyards and ask them for a local tax break. The Meta ones near me are very visible.
IncreasePosts 7 minutes ago [-]
There's also probably 100k people at Google who can see where all their data centers are, and it just takes one to tell someone else
andsoitis 44 minutes ago [-]
> not really sure its a wise choice to disclose datacenters anymore publicly.
Transparency is good.
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> Nobody lives there
Africa has just under 20% of the world's population.
Also easily found potential military targets: power generation, water treatment, hospitals, schools, government buildings, etc.
Transparency is good.