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Epic card · Science
Data center, an Epic card
A data center is a physical room, building, or facility for storing, managing, and disseminating data and information, including computer systems and associated components, housing IT infrastructure, and training artificial intelligence.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 93
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 520,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Data center quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Data center card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Data centers have different models depending on their ______.
Answer
workloads. Data centers have different models depending on their workloads. From the Data center article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Higgs boson. Higgs boson 97 · Data center 93 · Arsenic 90 · Saturn V 86 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The United States' act of Congress, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, defines a data center as "any facility that primarily contains electronic equipment used to process, store, and transmit digital information." This includes "a free-standing structure" or "a facility within a larger structure, that uses environmental control equipment to maintain the proper conditions for the…
- Data centers have different models depending on their workloads.
- An enterprise model hosts IT infrastructure and data on-premises, while cloud data centers, including hyperscale data centers, house IT infrastructure resources through an internet connection used by cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Data center article was read about 520,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 93 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Data center
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Data center (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charlie fong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
