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types of data centers
Enterprise Data Center
Enterprise Data Centers Location & Infrastructure: Usually on-premises, requiring dedicated space, power, cooling, and security.Power & Cooling: High-capacity power supply with backup generators, efficient cooling systems (CRAC units, chillers).Security: ...
Colocation Data Centers
Equinix Data Center in Dallas, Texas Colocation Data Centers Facilities where multiple organizations rent space and infrastructure, sharing power, cooling, and physical security resources. Location & Infrastructure: Shared facility that provides space, ...
Cloud Data Centers
Cloud Data Centers Massively scalable, operated by cloud providers, supporting cloud services like SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. Requirements: Massive Scale & Capacity: Hundreds of thousands of servers across multiple geographically dispersed sites.Power & Coo...
Hyperscale Data Centers
Hyperscale Data Centers Exceptionally large facilities designed to serve thousands or millions of users, typically operated by tech giants like Google, Amazon, or Facebook. Requirements: Physical Scale & Infrastructure: Cover hundreds of thousands to mi...
Edge Data Centers
Edge data center in Arlington, Texas Edge Data Centers A small-scale data center situated at the "edge" of a network, physically closer to where data is generated and consumed. The primary goal is to minimize the distance data has to travel, thereby redu...
Modular Data Centers
Modular Data Centers A modular data center is a portable, prefabricated data center system made from standardized components. Think of it like a set of building blocks for a data center. These modules, which can be the size of a shipping container, are bu...
Data Bank Data Services, Dallas, TX
Often, enterprise or colocation centers, sophisticates hide within the facade of an older building, typically with a more classical facade. These older buildings are often institutional or infrastructural, like banks and telephone towers, which no longer ...
Meta, Springfield, NE
These bi-winged creatures are often found in rural areas, where there is no need to hide. Always in two, creating an internal streetscape. These bi-winged creatures, often found in rural areas, where there is no need to hide, are the Guardians of the E...
Digital Realty, Ashburn, VA
The data center, as revealed in its plan, is a creature of almost deliberate indifference, a testament to the lack of architectural ambition that defines its purpose. Its layout, a series of repetitive, staggered boxes, betrays no passion or grand design, on...
A Sentinel in a Curtain of Denial
Cloud Merchant, Newark, NJ
Here, we witness the Post-Industrial Hermit Crab inhabiting the discarded shell of a bygone era. A glimpse into its inner workings reveals a dense, almost manicured grid of machinery nestled within a simple, unassuming rectangular form. This is the new, sof...
Amazon Web Services, Ashburn VA
This form that loves masks is a shy giant in a world of suburban homes, forests, and office parks. Its facade is a skin of tactical deception, a meticulous collection of grey stripes and panels. These are not for beauty, but for visual fragmentation, like a...
Switch Data Centers, Reno, NV
The facade is a continuous, solid wall, broken only by a slight impression of the rhythmic placement of the exhaust fans, and of course, the roof, monolithic and white. The building itself is a monolith, and it is further closed off by a perimeter fence and ...
Equinix Data Center, Ashburn, VA
Ashburn, Va
Ashburn, Virginia—Data Center Alley—hosts over 275 data centers carrying about 70% of global internet traffic at peak, driven by dense fiber networks, proximity to subsea cables, cheap and abundant Dominion Energy power, large industrial-zoned parcels, and low...