Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

The next day, Wang Zheng took Zhou Ruoyun back to Daxia first.

Accompanying us are two technical staff from Neople, who are responsible for assisting with translation work and server setup in Daxia.

Gong Yu has already arranged housing and offices for the people, and has hired four Korean translators, who are ready to start working at any time.

Wang Zheng was very fortunate that after coming to the Magic City, the most correct thing he did was to invite Gong Yu.

When he arrived at the company early in the morning, Gong Yu was already sitting in his office drinking tea and waiting for him.

"Mr. Wang, congratulations on your victory."

Wang Zheng smiled and waved his hand, mocking himself: "I just went on a trip. Xie Shengchuan did a great job."

"Without you in charge, Manager Xie wouldn't be so confident, and the negotiations wouldn't go so smoothly." Gong Yu took a shot and said, "Jingcheng Weidian did not agree to our acquisition invitation."

Gong Yu said regretfully: "I heard that Liu Xu accepted GFW's invitation and planned to dissolve the company."

GFW is the abbreviation of Great Firewalls, the wall of Great Xia.

Wang Zheng was also a little surprised by this, but he could understand it - Wei Dian had suffered so much injustice and it was understandable that he didn't want to do it anymore.

Of course, you may also know that you can't do Huo Rong.

After all, "Huo Rong Security" has added three million registered users in just one week, and currently ranks first in the Daxia anti-software market share.

Ruixing has been reduced to the point where everyone is shouting and beating them up. With the excitement of the netizens, anyone who dares to argue for Ruixing will be sprayed to death in an instant. The other three companies are also having a hard time, and their market share is shrinking quickly.

Venus Morning is slightly better. Their main business is in government orders, so the impact is not too big. Du Ba and Jiang Min are in a worse situation. They were beaten badly by Ruixing. Now Ruixing has fallen and Huo Rong has returned.

A sudden rise and rapid rise.

"What is Fang Xing doing now?"

Wang Zheng didn't see Fang Xing and asked one more question.

Gong Yu shrugged, spread his hands and said, "Go to Magic City Telecom. You may not believe me when I tell you, but he wants to put our data center next to the Zhouzhuang water area."

Wang Zheng smiled: "Why don't you believe this? If conditions permit, I would like to put the data center in the North Pole."

"why?!"

Gong Yu found it unbelievable. The data center, the company's most valuable asset, even planned to invest 100 million in the first phase of construction! Why not put it in the city instead of choosing such a remote place?

She can't understand.

"To save electricity."

"What?!"

Wang Zheng was also helpless. Why would so many well-known manufacturers dig mountains and dive into the sea in order to install data centers in the future?

Echang and Juchang dug caves in Guizhou, Microsoft threw the main database into the seabed, and Facebook went even further and put it directly in the Arctic Circle.

In the final analysis, it’s all about saving electricity, that’s the simple reason!

A large data center, from the beginning of construction to output, including land, construction, equipment and operation and maintenance, the total cost is difficult to compare with the electricity bill required to operate at full capacity in the previous year.

In reality, Huoyun plans to invest 100 million to build a smaller data center. Yes, it is smaller...

Because it is in Shanghai, it covers an area of ​​about 2,000 square meters. If it were in the city center, 5 million a year would be a big deal. After all, it was 2005.

Then there is the construction. A standard computer room of 2,000 square meters with cabinets and refrigeration facilities costs about 8 million.

Servers and network equipment account for 60 million, so 73 million are gone.

Renting telecommunications backbone network bandwidth for 20 million is barely enough.

The 100 million has almost been spent.

But how much does it cost to run it for one year?

Fifty million!

We are still using ordinary servers. If we all use high-density servers, we will have to go for 60 million to 70 million.

Why does it cost so much electricity?

It is also very simple, it is air conditioning. Of course, this is different from household air conditioning. The operation requirements of the computer room are constant temperature and humidity, and precision air conditioning is used.

Basically, if the server itself consumes 1000 watts of energy, the same 1000 watts must be used to reduce the heat.

This is why many data centers are placed in caves, in the sea, and even in the Arctic Circle. Because the temperature in these places is low and the air conditioning load is small, energy consumption is reduced in disguise.

Fang Xing has obviously been exposed to this aspect. After all, he has rich previous work experience. He thought about energy consumption before the construction started, and that's why he thought of deploying the data center in Zhouzhuang.

The water system there is developed and the temperature is relatively low, which can greatly reduce energy consumption.

But Wang Zheng has a better way.

As an old project manager, he has never operated a data center, but he has built one.

In 2017, he participated in the construction of a city government data center with a similar scale. Of course, the performance is incomparable.

Because it is a small town in the Central Plains, the data center finally chose the second underground floor. For the cooling part, a cabinet-type precision air conditioner was used to create a closed cold circulation channel. At the same time, water cooling circulation was used to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the cooling fins, ultimately reducing energy consumption.

consumption effect.

Wang Zheng informed Gong Yu about the power consumption of the data center. Gong Yu couldn't help but smacked his lips and said, "Is it so expensive?"

"DNF will definitely be operated in IDC in the early stage, and our data center construction speed cannot keep up. This part of the funds is enough, and the remaining funds are all invested in the construction of data centers in the three major backbone network nodes, Beijing, Magic City, and Yangcheng.

Come up."

"This will be Huoyun's future soul, no matter how much money is spent."

Gong Yu nodded cautiously and returned to his office.

That is to say, the current domestic backbone network nodes are only in these three cities. Otherwise, Wang Zheng would never deploy the data center in Shanghai - the electricity bill is too expensive.

However, we can only wait for the domestic expansion of network infrastructure and the addition of more backbone network node cities before we can make more considerations.

After thinking for a while, Wang Zheng called his secretary and asked the artist to come over.

Lin Jue, the page UI design of 365 Navigation, has now been mentioned as the leader of the project team.

"Team Leader Lin, I have an idea and I hope you can help me draw a sketch."

When the boss makes a request, of course she will not refuse: "Okay, Mr. Wang, this is easy."

Then he took out his drawing board and brush and sat aside to listen carefully to Wang Zheng's description.

What Wang Zheng wants to build is called a "modular cold aisle computer room", which will be the standard configuration of future data centers.

Its main purpose is to split the data center into small computer rooms. Each small computer room has separate power supply and independent cooling, and has an internal air flow channel designed to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the equipment.

This kind of small computer room uses standardized components, is easy to install, minimizes the process impact caused by construction, and is quick to deploy, adapting to most site conditions.

At the same time, the management and maintenance of modular computer rooms are simpler, and unattended operation can basically be achieved through relevant centralized operation and maintenance software.

This part of the software cannot be taken out, but compared with the memory, it is not a big problem to build a modular computer room.

The more difficult part is the refrigeration unit, that is, the air conditioner. Unlike traditional precision air conditioners that are placed separately, the air conditioner for modular computer rooms is integrated into the cabinet, and its appearance and function are specially designed for this purpose.

The cabinet part is very simple, just find a cabinet factory to make it.

However, this refrigeration unit is very troublesome, mainly because the initial usage is not large. If you want to customize a few units, there may not be a manufacturer willing to do it.