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2. Data Center Facilities

Ralf Süß1   and Yannik Süß2
(1)
Singapore, Singapur, Singapore
(2)
Unterhaching, Bayern, Germany
 
A data center (DC) facility is the physical building used for equipment to run a data center. It used to be just a room in an office building. Modern large DCs, built by a DC facility provider or cloud service provider (CSP), as seen in Figure 2-1, cover full floors in a large building, or an entire building is solely built for data center activities.

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