My son last week asked what "Watson" was. He had seen a Youtube video and he wanted to know what it was.

Learn how IBM Watson works and has similar thought processes to a human. http://www.ibm.com/watson

Instead of geeking out on trying to explain Watson like the above video I showed the Google DeepMind AlphaGo video that shows a specific application of compute power.

In a paper published in Nature on 28th January 2016, we describe a new approach to computer Go. This is the first time ever that a computer program "AlphaGo" has defeated a human professional player. The game of Go is widely viewed as an unsolved "grand challenge" for artificial intelligence.

He then asked where is the computer that runs DeepMind. DeepMind is in a data center like the one we drive by in The Dalles.

Google DeepMind AlphaGo just beat a Go Champion in the 1st of a 5 game match.

Google's AlphaGo AI defeats human in first game of Go contest
Machine takes 1-0 lead in historic five-game matchup between computer program developed by DeepMind and world’s best Go player Lee Sedol

Now my son wants to visit Google to see a data center.That's so cool. On the other hand his older 14 yr old sister is not on the same page how cool a visit would be. :-) One of these days I may get my daughter interested in data centers.