“Data centers are unavoidable in Northern Virginia. When I sat on a bench next to a neighborhood lake, a hyperscale data center owned by Microsoft stared back at me from the opposite bank. … I could even feel their influence in the street names: Cloud Plaza, Performance Circle, and, worst of all, Growth Mindset Lane. We can thank Microsoft for that one.” Read a new excerpt from HYPERSCALE in @thenation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/inside-a-data-center-hyperscale/