{"id":165871,"date":"2023-06-16T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/everywhere-and-nowhere-metaverse-leaders-plan-for-data-centers-on-a-whole-new-scale"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:22:26","slug":"everywhere-and-nowhere-metaverse-leaders-plan-for-data-centers-on-a-whole-new-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/everywhere-and-nowhere-metaverse-leaders-plan-for-data-centers-on-a-whole-new-scale","title":{"rendered":"Everywhere and nowhere: Metaverse leaders plan for data centers on a whole new scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNk0oxIksjY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/venturebeat-special-issue--data-centers-in-2023-how-to-do-more-with-less\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data centers in 2023: How to do more with less<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/games\/the-deanbeat-a-big-bang-week-for-the-metaverse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">metaverse<\/a> was once pure science fiction, an idea of a sprawling online universe born 30 years ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/games\/why-neal-stephenson-is-trying-to-make-the-open-metaverse-into-a-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neal Stephenson<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/games\/snow-crash-inspired-the-metaverse-and-now-its-becoming-an-hbo-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Snow Crash<\/em><\/a> novel. But now it\u2019s gone through a rebirth as a realistic destination for many industries. And so I asked some people how the metaverse will change data centers in the future.<\/p>\n<p>First, it helps to reach an understanding of what the metaverse will be. Some see the metaverse as the next version of the internet, or the spatial web, or the 3D web, with a 3D animated foundation that resembles sci-fi movies like Steven Spielberg\u2019s <em>Ready Player One<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: Data centers in 2023: How to do more with less. The metaverse was once pure science fiction, an idea of a sprawling online universe born 30 years ago in Neal Stephenson\u2019s Snow Crash novel. But now it\u2019s gone through a rebirth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}