With a simple logic that all connected things produce data and when they produce data they need a data center to store it, we know that in this fast-paced world, we need devices with a fast processing power. This need, therefore, has pushed data centers to the edge. And who knows, you could be driving in a data center real soon.
According to calculations by Intel – “The estimated amount of data that an autonomous car will generate in a day is about 4TB.”
The commencement of autonomous vehicles has given rise to predictions that their high computing power will help them act as a data center when not in use. Now, this may sound a bit too revolutionary to implement, but considering that even the non-autonomous vehicles today use more than fifty processors, you should start to feel its likeliness.
Potential of the Idle Processors in Autonomous Vehicles
The autonomous vehicles amount to a good deal of compute power and are designed to provide great entertainment, gaming, and other facilities. With proper mission-critical infrastructure, these vehicles can be put into use for high-performance computing. When put together on a network, you’ll have massive computational power to use for various business operations.
If you put around 10 autonomous cars together in a network, you can easily run a small or medium sized business. And if you put a few hundred of them together, you can have a data center on hire!
What Mission-Critical Infrastructure Will it Need?
The next step in the world of vehicles will most likely be the introduction of charging stations, the autonomous vehicles being completely electric. These charging stations will be set up along with some compute capacity, an AI system, and huge data transfer pipes combining 5G and fiber.
Soon shopping centers, business hubs, and government buildings will be seen with these mission-critical infrastructure facilities for autonomous vehicles.
With autonomous vehicles as data centers on hire, the time is not too far when you’ll have a car that will not only take you places but also serve you as a valuable asset and help you earn revenue from an IT service provider or a colocation provider.
This will definitely take some time to execute, but if you are in need of data center or other mission-critical infrastructure solutions or services for your business operations, then connect with the experts at Prasa Infocom & Power Solutions today! We are a dedicated team of full-fledged data center consultants, engineers, and design experts that offer mission-critical infrastructure services for all your business needs.
Reference:
https://www.vertivco.com/en-us/about/news-and-insights/articles/blog-posts/the-car-as-a-data-center-using-autonomous-vehicles-as-a-platform-for-distributed-hpc/
https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/self-driving-cars-big-meaning-behind-one-number-4-terabytes/
