Bonus

In 2011, one of these facilities in Oregon ran into issues when the local climate’s effect on cold aisle containment caused a literal cloud to form inside the building and begin raining. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these facilities that often receive tax breaks in remote towns but may stretch local grids. A “colocation” or “colo” (“CO-lo”) is one of these facilities that rents out space, in contrast to “enterprise” ones.
ANSWER: data centers [accept web farms or cloud computing centers or computing clusters or server arrays or server parks or similar answers; prompt on servers or warehouses; reject “supercomputers”]
[10e] The densest data center hub in the world is in this state’s Data Center Alley around Ashburn, which is part of this state’s Dulles Technology Corridor west of Arlington and Alexandria.
ANSWER: Virginia [or VA]
[10h] Everest Pipkin’s essay on the invisibility of data centers calls them examples of these anonymous spaces. Marc Augé’s (“oh-ZHAY’s”) book on the “anthropology of supermodernity” coined this term for spaces like hotels and airports.
ANSWER: non-places (Pipkin’s essay is “It Was Raining in the Data Center.”)
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EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
15813.9791%43%5%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
ASUTexas B0000
AlbertaUW B1010020ME
BUBrandeis A010010E
Brandeis BHarvard A010010E
Bruin AAlabama A010010E
Cambridge CCambridge A010010E
Cambridge EDurham010010E
CarletonIowa State010010E
Chicago AChicago D1010020ME
Chicago BIllinois B1010020ME
Chicago CIllinois A1010020ME
Columbia CJohn Jay College010010E
Cornell BNYU A1010020ME
Cornell CBinghamton A010010E
DukeLiberty A010010E
ESF ARIT B010010E
Florida AValencia A1010020ME
Florida BUCF C0101020EH
Florida State AUCF B010010E
George Washington BNYU B1010020ME
Georgetown ANorthwestern B1010020ME
Georgia Tech BVanderbilt A010010E
Georgia Tech CLouisville A010010E
Harvard BDartmouth A1010020ME
Haverford APenn B1010020ME
Haverford BGeorge Washington A0000
Imperial AManchester10101030MEH
KenyonCase Western B010010E
MIT AUMass Boston1010020ME
Maryland AJohns Hopkins A010010E
Michigan ACarnegie Mellon A010010E
Michigan BMichigan State010010E
Michigan CCarnegie Mellon B010010E
Michigan DOhio State B010010E
MissouriIllinois C1010020ME
NYU COxford B1010020ME
Northwestern AStanford B0101020EH
Notre Dame CNotre Dame B010010E
Ohio State ACase Western A010010E
Penn ARutgers A1010020ME
PurdueIowa1010020ME
RIT ACornell D1010020ME
South CarolinaLiberty B1010020ME
Southampton BWarwick A0000
TAMUTexas A010010E
Tennessee AGeorgia Tech A0000
Tufts ABrown A1010020ME
UNC BWilliam & Mary1010020ME
UNC DVirginia A010010E
UW AUBC1010020ME
Vassar AMaryland B1010020ME
Virginia Tech AUNC C010010E
Wake ForestLiberty C010010E
WashU AIndiana B1010020ME
WashU BIndiana A010010E
Winona StateMinnesota B010010E
Wisconsin BWisconsin A100010M
Yale AColumbia B1010020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
Florida2025-02-01316.67100%33%33%
Great Lakes2025-02-01610.00100%0%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01613.33100%33%0%
Midwest2025-02-01618.33100%83%0%
North2025-02-01310.0067%33%0%
Northeast2025-02-01516.00100%60%0%
Overflow2025-02-01417.50100%50%25%
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01220.00100%100%0%
South Central2025-02-0125.0050%0%0%
Southeast2025-02-0147.5075%0%0%
UK2025-02-01514.0080%40%20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01915.5689%67%0%
Upstate NY2025-02-01313.33100%33%0%