Just like any other building, data centers can be impacted by extreme climate conditions, such as excessive heat and flooding. What’s unique to data centers is the volume of businesses that require high availability of the infrastructure in those buildings. At Equinix, we have more than 10,000 customers worldwide, and all of them rely on our data center operations to help them serve their users without missing a beat. Over the past several years, we’ve seen the variety and frequency of these worst-case scenarios increasing due to climate change that has resulted in extreme weather conditions such as heat, rain…

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