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Data centers – the promise, debate, innovation and competition in 2025

Image of the Global Relay green data center located in North Vancouver, Canada.
Global Relay’s Green Data center in Vancouver. Photo: Global Relay

Julie DiMauro, Alexander Barzacanos

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Data centers are in significant demand and offer great opportunities. But challenges lurk in maintaining and securing them, and in meeting energy consumption considerations.

Data centers have emerged as the backbone of modern life, powering everything from social media and cloud computing to telemedicine and artificial intelligence tools. Early data centers typically comprised one huge supercomputer, but modern versions are now home to thousands of servers connecting to various communication networks. 

A data center is

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