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Infrastructure & data centers

The facilities digital activity depends on, and the dependencies they create: data centres, cooling, power, networks, and technology supply chains.

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Adiabatic coolingAvailability zoneBattery Energy Storage System (BESS)Behind-the-meter generationBGP route withdrawalCable shipCarbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)Cloud regionCloud vendor lock-in and egress feesColocationContent delivery network failureContingent business interruption (cloud provider)Dark fiberData center development moratoriumData center fire riskData center insurabilityData centers' share of national electricity consumptionEdge data centerFree coolingGenerator load bank testingGeographic concentration of data centersGPU clusterGrid interconnection queue riskHeatwave risk (data center)Human operational error treatment (cover)HyperscalerImmersion coolingInternal network failure (hyperscaler)Internet exchange point (IXP)Limits of intra-site redundancyLiquid coolingMicrogridMulti-site disaster recoveryOut-of-provider backupPermanent data lossPower purchase agreement (PPA)Power supply failure (data center)Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)Prefabricated modular data centerRack power density (kW per rack)Service level agreement creditShared responsibility modelSubmarine cable landing stationTechnology dependency vectorsTraining and inference workloadsUPS-generator backup chain failureUptime Institute Tier classificationWater Usage Effectiveness (WUE)
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