The name "Blacklight Biotechnology" spread like wildfire with the news of signing a sky-high $4 billion contract with Facebook.
For the first time, countless people focused their attention on this little-known small company, and what followed was the rapid fermentation of the product "Xiao X Translation Assistant".
It's more effective than Xia Yin's tens of millions spent on advertising.
And the key thing is that the contract signed by Chen Chen and Facebook is only an exclusive authorization for the platform, which means that only Facebook users do not need to pay any fees, and Chen Chen can still charge other individual users.
So taking advantage of this public opinion effect, "Xiao X Translation Assistant" finally adopted a monthly membership charging mechanism.
The membership price is set at 25 yuan a month.
If you want a discount, you can choose to recharge for 6 months at a time for only 120 yuan, a discount of 30 yuan.
The most favorable one is the annual membership. A one-time recharge of 200 yuan can be used for one year, which is a 100 yuan discount.
In addition, new users can also enjoy a 15-day free trial period. At the same time, every time a user shares and successfully promotes a new user to register an account, they will receive an additional three days of free use.
This is only the price for users in the Central Continent. As for other continents, it will increase or decrease in proportion to the local economic level.
Just a few days after Chen Chen reached an agreement with Facebook, Ye Dongmei, an employee of Blacklight Technology, was found guilty of misconduct and accepting bribes while working as an assistant manager, and was subsequently fired by Blacklight Technology.
Chen Chen, in the name of his company, bought an IDC data center on the verge of bankruptcy in Shangdu Industrial Park.
The so-called data center, namely InteDataCenter, is an intermediary based on the Inte network that provides Internet companies with information services such as collection, storage, and processing.
Take Xia Yin’s web game company as an example:
After a new user registers a Huiyao Company game, how should Huiyao Company record the other party's game information so that the next time the other party logs in, there will be no embarrassing data loss
Generally speaking, Huiyao Company has two options:
The first one: Build a server yourself to support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of user visits every moment.
This one requires building a server from scratch and requires at least one computer room. There must also be a sufficient cooling system in the computer room. Plus the cost of professional maintenance personnel, it is expensive.
The second type: hand over the task of storing information to a data center, and the company itself only needs to concentrate on the development and maintenance of the game.
To put it simply, a data center is a public computer room specially used to store network information of various companies.
It is also called a cloud server.
The building Chen Chen bought was a data center with old equipment, frequent paralysis, severe data delays, and a series of problems that were on the verge of closure.
This data center is already large in terms of scale, with a total of eight computer rooms and more than 4,000 servers. Each computer room is 10×50 meters in size. Including the office space, the entire building covers an area of 5,000 square meters.
It was originally one of the data branches of Zhongzhou District Public Enterprise Telecommunications. Because it was established for a long time, many of the equipment have become too old to be upgraded and cannot keep up with the times.
Moreover, according to the TIA classification, this data center is only at the most basic [TierI] level. It has also lost its competitiveness among countless newly established high-end data centers.
Therefore, Chen Chen only spent 20 million to buy it from Telecom, including the remaining 2 years of land lease.
After buying it, Chen Chen did not immediately upgrade and replace these old server equipment. Instead, he first purchased a transformer.
Originally, Chen Chen wanted to buy a regional transformer, but considering that installing such a transformer might cause abnormal local electricity consumption and attract the government's attention, he ultimately only bought a 10,000KVA, 35KV all-copper oil-immersed transformer.
When the truck brought the transformer back, Chen Chen discovered that this transformer alone was as big as a room.
This transformer is three times the capacity of the data center’s original transformer.
In fact, the power consumption of the servers in the data center is still second, and the most power-consuming thing is the cooling of the computer room.
According to the power consumption ratio given by the data center market: server power consumption accounts for 40% of the total power consumption, cooling accounts for 55%, and the remaining power supply and lighting account for about 5%.
Such a data center requires a 3000KVA transformer to fully supply.
Now it has only increased three times. It should not attract the attention of the power supply station, right
Chen Chen touched his chin and thought.
In fact, the best way to power a USB flash drive is to build a power plant in Waizhou District.
For example, in the Indian District or the African District, the district government environment there can provide Chen Chen with a large degree of freedom, instead of walking on thin ice in everything he does now.
However, the price of building a power plant is really astronomical, and Chen Chen couldn't afford it before.
But recently, after Facebook's $4 billion was received, it had the capital to give it a try.
It's just that water from afar cannot quench the thirst of nearby people. The construction of a power station will take at least one year, so there is no rush for the time being.
As for Chen Chen's honey operation, Xia Yin couldn't understand it.
Although he could choose to rent a cloud server, Chen Chen had to spend a lot of money to buy an old data center. Apart from the land title and building value, the old antique servers inside should have been packed up and sold for scrap metal.
However, Chen Chen was the boss. After several attempts to persuade her to no avail, Xia Yin was extremely angry, but she could only follow Chen Chen's wishes.
Not only that, but a few days later, Chen Chen spent a huge amount of money to upgrade the expensive liquid cooling system of the entire data center. He also replaced all the servers and actually sold all the old servers. Scrap iron.
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While renovating, Chen Chen re-planned the power system. Not only did he replace the transformer, he also built a main control room like an iron barrel next to the transformer.
The main control room not only controls the power system of the entire data center, but Chen Chen also built the main control room into a home structure of hundreds of square meters with two rooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom.
The entire company cannot understand this kind of operation.
After the main control room was completed half a month later, Chen Chen directly moved the furniture and living supplies and moved in personally.
Everyone who knew about this was confused. The only explanation they could give themselves was that this was probably a quirk of rich people...
In the end, Chen Chen lived alone in this multi-million mansion which was renamed "Blacklight Biotechnology Data Center".
Only Chen Chen himself understood that by switching from a 200KVA transformer to a 10,000KVA transformer, he would definitely be able to create more interesting movie props this time...