Chapter 1945 Preparations (Part 2)

The underwater computer room was planned by Guo Tailai a long time ago. On the one hand, it was to save the energy consumption of the cooling system, and on the other hand, it also prompted the Institute of Computer Research to study this technology. You know, all kinds of big data computer rooms in the future will either be placed in big caves in Guizhou Province, or they can only find ways to save energy. This kind of underwater computer room is also a very important technology, even Microsoft needs it.

Of course, the most important thing is that once the computer room is placed underwater, generally speaking, unless there is a large area of ​​failure, it will not come out of the water within a certain period of time, which ensures that the underwater server has A stable and secret space, so that a group of servers that Guo Tailai is mixed in will not be easily discovered, as long as the cables are installed separately in advance.

Therefore, when the Computer Institute completed the technical research and development and was about to start the construction of the underwater computer room, Guo Tailai decisively requested that some of them be processed by himself, especially the part that needed watertight protection.

In this regard, the computer institute was overjoyed, and they were worried that the manufacturer they were looking for had unqualified technology and workmanship, which would lead to water leakage. Once the water leaks, it is a supercomputer worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Even if it can afford to lose money, it cannot afford to lose time and data. Guo Tailai was willing to do the processing, which ensured that there would be no problems in the craftsmanship, and the responsibility was lighter, and the two sides hit it off immediately.

The Computer Institute immediately handed over the drawings of the container part of the underwater computer room to Guo Tailai. This part of the design was considered a free gift, and they only earned the construction costs of other underwater water circulation and placement parts. With a successful case, such as Mr. T's supercomputer, this kind of advertisement blessed by celebrities, this kind of underwater computer room will definitely be widely promoted in the future.

Guo Tailai ordered the silicon crystal cylinder, obviously to build a supercomputer for himself, a super powerful supercomputer. Although the current supercomputing is powerful, it is still incomparable with the speed of supercomputing decades later, which is a gap of a million times the computing speed at the beginning. Guo Tailai needs a more powerful supercomputer to help him calculate and improve many wind tunnel models, aerodynamic models, force models and many other calculations including monster aircraft.

And there happens to be a supercomputer design structure diagram stored in the big data of nanorobots, including a series of necessary things such as chips and motherboards. The processing is extremely difficult and super complicated. Of course, Guo Tailai is willing to process these and prepare a set for himself. Set of more advanced supercomputers.

With these, there will be some guarantees for what Guo Tailai will do in the future. This can be regarded as the preparatory work in the early stage!

Then Guo Tailai found that he needed to process more and more things, and the workload has not decreased, but has increased. Poor fat man!

After spending a week processing an "oil storage tank" and transporting it away, Guo Tailai had just finished dinner with Mrs. Lin Jiayi when he suddenly received a call from Annie.

Annie's phone call was not to report work, but the topic at the beginning was related to work. "Shenxing 2" has achieved a very good box office, with a total global box office of 650 million US dollars, which is enough to make everyone very happy . "Shenxing 3", "Shenxing 4" and "Shenxing 5" have all started filming or are in preparation. Shenxing Universe already has a series of scripts, and the success of the second part has put the follow-up on the agenda. Anyway, there is one episode for each beauty member, and everyone can make guest appearances on each other without interfering with each other, which is very convenient, as long as the release time is staggered for a period of time.

This time Annie contacted the boss to tell Guo Tailai the good news that Warner Bros. Pictures was going to be sold by Time Warner.

Is Time Warner Selling Warner Bros. Pictures? Guo Tai suddenly became interested: "Tell me!"

Since Warner Bros. Pictures withheld the share from Yijiang Entertainment, it has experienced a series of various problems. The attempt to buy shares in Artisan Entertainment failed early on. Artisan Entertainment was not short of money at all. The portion they deducted did not affect the normal operation of Artisan Entertainment at all, and even offended Guo Tailai for no reason.

Then Warner Bros. was squeezed out by several other big companies in Hollywood. Various projects have been bumpy, and "Superman Returns" has a huge investment of 270 million U.S. dollars. When it was released last year, because many distributors were missing, and the lineup of theaters including AMC was also reduced accordingly, resulting in a continuous increase in the North American box office. It didn't arrive at 150 million US dollars, only 140 million US dollars, but it should have reached 200 million US dollars. The overseas box office is only 130 million, which adds up to exactly 270 million U.S. dollars. Warner Bros.'s underpants are almost gone, and the executives want to cry but have no tears.

Perhaps their only profitable project in the past two years is "Harry Potter", but when the "Harry Potter" series is released, other companies always have blockbuster films, resulting in far lower than expected revenue. The consequence of this is that Warner Bros. has suffered huge losses for two or three consecutive years.

When contacting actors, some big-name stars always open their mouths. As a last resort, they either bite the bullet and accept high quotations, or find some people who are not famous enough to act. Anyway, there are always various problems in the production process of various projects. When things happen, the cost rises, and at the same time, a group of high-level executives are exhausted and miserable.

In addition to the huge loss of the film, there are also various difficulties in other aspects. Warner Brothers once wanted to invest in China and set up a joint venture company with China to invest in movies, but the result was also haha.

It seems that the early talks with several companies in Huaxia were very pleasant, but none of them were willing to sign the contract. Those who were interested also expressed that they needed to consider it after a heart-to-heart chat with a certain Uncle Han. Research, all kinds of pushing but not doing.

After two or three years, with all kinds of troubles and losses, everyone suddenly discovered that Warner Bros. has fallen to the point where it is even worse than MGM. If there is still a "Harry Potter" series to support, even the loan for the production of the film may not be able to get a loan, and in the end it can only be invested by the parent company.

Several banks forced loans at the same time, and even the parent company was implicated, and Time Warner was investigated to see if there was something tricky about writing off losses at the time. The U.S. Federal Revenue Service (IRS) also conducted various investigations on Time Warner, and began to trace the financial situation of the previous few years to see if there was any tax evasion and tax evasion. Everyone knows how Hollywood loses money. If you make a loss, you don’t have to pay Tax, as long as there is a strong investigation, there will be no evidence that cannot be found.

The living space was squeezed by the peers, the bank drew loans, and the IRS frantically investigated. Finally, under the strong pressure from all aspects, the parent company Time Warner couldn't hold on, and had to make a painful decision to sell the car to protect the handsome man. Out of Warner Bros. Pictures.

"Boss, should we think about acquiring Warner Bros." Anne is not a person who keeps her own law and order. If she can acquire Warner Bros., she will become the most powerful woman in Hollywood. When asking Guo Tailai for his opinion at this moment, his eyes were shining brightly.