Data centers have become just as essential to society as water treatment facilities and power plants. It’s gratifying to see that governments around the world not only recognize this fact, but that they’re acting upon it, as the UK did when it designated data centers as critical national infrastructure. It’s important to recognize that data centers are only one piece of the digital infrastructure equation, and they don’t operate as data islands. Our digital world is inherently interconnected, and many of the applications we rely on don’t run out of a single data center. They require many distributed data centers…

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