My rebirth is different

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Cai Congxin is a little tongue-tied, 60.00%, that is, one billion yuan is used to build a data center?

Is it worth investing so much!

"Mr. Fei, it seems that we don't need a large-scale computer room for our business volume now. I think the existing computer room is quite large, and the loading speed of our Facebook is also the fastest in the industry." Cai Congxin asked suspiciously.

When he first came here, he visited the huge computer room of Facebook, which occupied a whole floor, and it was full of densely packed cabinets, and even the servers were purchased from IBM's high-end machines.

Cai Congxin was very emotional at the time, Yu Wenfei was really willing to spend money on hardware.

But it is understandable, because the opening speed of Facebook is also well-known in the industry, and users have praised it.

In the end, he didn't expect that Yu Wenfei would use more than half of the [-] million US dollars investment he just received to build a data center.

This step is too big...

You must know that in the Internet industry at that time, companies like Tencent, which had more users than Facebook, did not have their own computer rooms.

Cai Congxin learned that Tencent is now renting the computer room of Pengcheng Telecom.

"Mr. Cai, it seems to be enough now, but it won't be enough soon! Our new projects are all hardware-hungry! Especially the video platform, if we want to do well, we need too much hardware and bandwidth. support." Yu Wenfei explained with a smile.

Chapter 494

There is also a reason why few people do video websites, especially long videos.

If you want to do this thing well, the investment is too big!

Servers and bandwidth alone are beyond the reach of ordinary small companies.

Not to mention that time in 2003, even after more than ten years, there are only a few giants left on the video website, and they start to charge in full, but those few video giants still lose money every year and never make a profit!

Watching Tencent videos and iQiyi, the superficial scenery is boundless, but only they know the bitterness inside.

Why do video sites still offer gold memberships and super memberships after charging membership fees? Even after you have bought all the memberships, you have to pay separately if you want to watch hot dramas. After paying dozens of dollars more, you can watch a few episodes earlier than other members .

They are all forced. The financial pressure of the website is too great, so they will naturally try their best to make money.

If possible, Yu Wenfei wouldn't want to engage in such a thing.

However, Facebook wants to become a pan-entertainment and form its own ecological closed loop, and the video website really wants to do it, there is no way.

To be a video website is to spend money desperately in the early stage, and then attract venture capital everywhere.

If during the development process, the venture capital cannot be attracted and the flow of funds is cut off, then the website will go bankrupt.

The purpose is to kill all competitors, and finally successfully go public to cash out a fortune.

As for the profit model of the video website, it depends on membership fees plus advertisements, but this is far from enough for the huge expenses of website operation and purchase of various copyrights.

Therefore, since Yu Wenfei intends to build a video website, he must put the hardware first. He doesn’t want to imagine that video websites on the market are like watching videos for 1 minute and caching them for 10 minutes.

Isn't that ruining your own reputation?

In particular, the WeChat project that will be launched soon, this is a big consumer of hardware and bandwidth...

Tencent now has more than 1 million users, and it is estimated that there are more than 1000 million but less than 2000 million online at the same time, because the number of its users is very large.

That's it, the Pengcheng Telecom computer room rented by Tencent has already accounted for 80.00% of Pengcheng Telecom's traffic!

This number is astonishing.

And this is still in the case that Tencent QQ has not launched functions such as voice and video chat. Is it actually difficult to add these functions?

Or did the people at Tencent not think of it?

No, it's just because Tencent's hardware strength doesn't allow it...

Just like that, QQ was still very slow to use at that time, there was no offline information, and there were no historical chat records.

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"Manager Lu, please introduce our data center plan to Mr. Cai." Yu Wenfei turned to Lu Qi and said.

"Good Mr. Fei. There are five data centers in our plan. Originally, the company used 18 million of its own funds to invest in the construction. Now that the land has been found, the construction will start soon. But now the plan has changed. According to Mr. Fei, it is necessary to expand the scale in one step. Take a single data center as an example. It is planned to build a building first, and reserve at least five buildings for future expansion. The construction area of ​​the computer room is about two 8 square meters, [-] cabinets are designed, the total power consumption is [-]MW, and the power consumption of a single rack is [-]KW! Each cabinet is [-] servers, a total of [-] servers!

Of course, we will not fill up all the computer rooms in the early stage, and will gradually replenish them in the later stage. At the beginning, only [-] servers will be deployed in a data center.If all IBM high-end commercial servers are purchased, the average price per server will be more than [-], and the specific price depends on the result of the negotiation with the other party.Calculated in this way, the investment amount of a data center will reach [-] million.Therefore, it is just right to add the newly raised one billion yuan to the original two hundred million yuan. "

Lu Qi eloquently introduced.

Just from the planning of this data center, Cai Congxin has already felt how big Yu Wenfei's ambitions are!

Five new data centers, plus the Xinzhuang Science and Technology Park here, a total of six data centers.

The capacity of each data center starts with [-] high-power servers, and can be quickly expanded to [-]!

In addition, each data center still has space for expansion.

What is Yu Wenfei trying to do?

Do you want to be a telecom operator...

Cai Congxin couldn't imagine how big the scale would be to require such a large data center and so many servers!

Is the smiling young man in front of him a genius or a lunatic?

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Yu Wenfei was very busy at the company, and he received a call from his tutor.

"Yu Wenfei, congratulations on getting [-] million dollars in venture capital. From now on, you will be a real billionaire. Ah, that's not right, you've already been a billionaire. It should be said... a billionaire!" On the phone, Lao Huang said heartily.

"Thank you, Mr. Huang, what a billionaire, it's early." Yu Wenfei responded with a smile.

"You have done very well in the company, but have you forgotten something?" Lao Huang said again.

Forgot what?

Yu Wenfei wondered why he didn't remember what he forgot.

"Have you ever come to school after the new year? Don't forget that you are still a student, so you should show your face at school anyway."

Lao Huang on the other end of the phone almost vomited blood.

This student!

I really don't know whether to praise him or scold him.

Of course, Lao Huang didn't have the courage to scold Yu Wenfei, but he knew that Yu Wenfei was closer than his own son in front of the two principals.