RIP Luiz Barroso, who pioneered the modern data center for Google and made the modern internet possible. Until Barroso, data centers were populated by enormously powerful and expensive computer servers. Barroso instead used massive numbers of relatively inexpensive, disposable machines.

“… we must treat the data center itself as one massive warehouse-scale computer,” Barroso said.

Barroso was one of those immigrants that Republicans say are vermin polluting America’s blood.