Data centers often take up football-field-sized spaces. But a new trend focuses on finding homes for them in tight city environments.
Paul Schlattman explains in “Introducing the New Urban Data Center Condo” in his On Target column for Mission Critical magazine. He points out there are many advantages to locating a data center in an urban environment, including catering to REIT wholesale/colocation providers, serving edge computer processing and reducing security costs through the condo association.