The cloud is a building. Come and look inside
Four short games. Walk through the building, follow a photo from your phone to a hard drive, meet the people who keep it running, and find out what is really stored in there. No jargon, no maths, about ten minutes for all four.
Inside the building.
A data centre is mostly not computers. Tap any numbered part of the building to find out what it does and why it is there, including the three parts in turquoise that decide how much of what it uses goes to waste. Find all thirteen.
Thirteen parts, one building
Only two of the thirteen parts hold computers. Everything else exists to keep those two rooms powered, cool, connected and safe, or to stop the building wasting what it uses. That balance is the most surprising thing about a data centre.
Follow the photo.
You take a photo on your phone in Hertfordshire and it appears in the cloud. Where does it actually go? Choose the next stop each time and move the photo along. Eight stops, and it takes less time in real life than a blink.
Who works here.
A big site runs around the clock with a shift on site at all times. Tap each badge to meet the person, then answer six calls and pick who you would send.
Cloud or pocket.
Some things live in a data centre. Some things never leave your hand. Ten cards, two answers, one line of explanation each. Most people get two or three wrong, and they are usually the interesting ones.
Played all four? Come and tell us your score, and we will show you the parts of the building the drawings never show.
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