John C. Spruill

Let's start with the simplest question, because a lot of folks have never been told the answer. What is a data center? It's a building full of computers. That's it. Every photo on your phone, every bank statement, every episode you stream, every medical record at the hospital has to physically live somewhere. When people say something is "in the cloud," there is no cloud. There is a building, with rows of computers in it, running around the clock, holding your information and sending it back...

Why the real threat to American unity isn’t coming from outside our borders For two hundred and fifty years, the great forge of American patriotism has been shared hardship. The Revolution created this country. The Civil War redefined it. The World Wars globalized it. And for one brief, painful moment in September of 2001, a terrorist attack reminded us what we still held in common. Each of those events did the same thing: they made Americans look up from their own quarrels and see each...