3. The Evolution of Data Centers

The history of data centers is intimately tied to the history of computing itself. To understand how we arrived at today's massive, highly efficient facilities, we need to trace the evolution of data processing from the earliest days of electronic computing.

3.1 The Mainframe Era (1940s-1970s)

The concept of a data center has its roots in the early computer rooms of the 1940s and 1950s. These rooms housed massive mainframe computers, which were the first general-purpose electronic computing machines.