Books
Industry professionals have created books that provide children (and adults!) with super fun and easy-to-understand descriptions of how data centers operate and how data center technology works.
Feel free to take a look and use them in your class or at home!
What is an eBook?
An eBook is an electronic book that can be opened and read on a computer, tablet or mobile device. Just like regular books, eBooks contain text and images. In addition, some eBooks include links to other useful websites.
eBooks
Our eBook library currently offers two eBooks. Feel free to check out both!
Adventures in the Cloud World
Published by Digital Realty
Introducing Digital Realty’s first children’s book – ‘Adventures in the Cloud World’ – offering a fun and accessible introduction to the world of data centers, designed specifically for the younger generation.
Aimed at children between the ages of six and 12, ‘Adventures in the Cloud World’ follows Bella and Nini’s adventures to Cloud World, where they seek to better understand the internet after their Wi-Fi turns off at home. In Cloud World, they meet JB, a programmable machine that processes information, who explains how data centers work and asks for their help in the server room to find loose connections.
What is a Data Center?
A Tale of a Honey Badger Family
Published by Eaton
$12
A children’s book for about data centers–with honey badgers! Follow a honey badger family through their adventures in a data center.
Written by Melissa Tamberg and Mike DeCamp, Illustrated by Laura Scheving
Books
Polly Packet’s Precious Payload
Written by Carrie Goetz
This book acts as an introduction to how the internet works and how messages (in this case a smile and message for Grandma) get to the data center and explains what a data center is.
