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CRAC

Hot-Aisle Containment

Raised Floor

PUE

Diverse Entrance

N+1 Redundancy Dark Fiber

Cage 99.999% Uptime

Flywheel UPS

VESDA

SLA

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Worldwide, the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants. A single data center can take more power than a medium-size town.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?pagewanted=all

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