Uber Scaling Up Its Data Center Infrastructure (datacenterfrontier.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @08:25AM from the power-up dept.

1sockchuck writes: Connected cars generate a lot of data. That's translating into big business for data center providers, as evidenced by a major data center expansion by Uber, which needs more storage and compute power to support its global data platform. Uber drivers' mobile phones send location updates every 4 seconds, which is why the design goal for Uber's geospatial index is to handle a million writes per second. It's a reminder that as our cars become mini data centers, the data isn't staying onboard, but will also be offloaded to the data centers of automakers and software companies.

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Just me? by JustNiz · 2016-01-13 08:40 · Score: 4, Informative

Is it just me or does anyone else here also have a personal policy to never buy any car that is "connected" or can "phone home"?
Re:Data transfer costs by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2016-01-13 09:06 · Score: 4, Informative

^^^ What I was thinking. You can't even spell JSON with 24 bits these days. :)