Ukrainian businesses are gradually reaching a new level — the level of global trade, where accepting payments from anywhere in the world becomes a normal process. And now, this path is becoming much easier thanks to Mastercard Gateway, a platform implemented by Oschadbank. This solution allows companies in Ukraine to accept international payments online, in mobile apps, or even in physical retail locations — without complicated setups or multiple intermediaries.
Imagine a data center not standing in an industrial zone or in the middle of a field under power lines, but resting deep beneath the ocean, cooled naturally by its currents. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, yet in China this vision has already become reality. The country has launched the world’s first commercial underwater data center — a project that could redefine how we imagine the infrastructure of the digital future.
In the history of technology, the creation of data centers was a revolutionary step that changed the approach to data storage and processing on a global level. The first computer networks had significant limitations, which over time became obvious. Initially, companies used individual servers that required substantial resources to maintain, and with the development of networks and the growing need for data storage, the necessity arose to create large, specialized centers for data processing.