Global demand for data centers is ballooning as tech companies require storage and computing facilities at accelerating rates.
Data centers house the computers that support streaming services, internet commerce, cloud-based document storage, cryptocurrency and, more recently, artificial intelligence technologies that developers are weaving into nearly every aspect of a world increasingly reliant on computers and digital media.
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