The information backbone of our connected world
Today, data centers worldwide represent the information backbone of our increasingly digitized world. The forecast is that the global data center market will nearly double in this decade and become a $948 billion industry in 2030, up from $466 billion in 2020 (Verdict 2022). Data centers have become crucial to business operations. In particular, the recent pandemic forced many companies to adapt quickly and migrate their on-premises services to the cloud to cater to the demand of an increasingly distributed workforce. In the last two years, there has been a race to close the accelerated gap for digital transformation, and the demand for cloud, AI deployments, and consequently data has increased exponentially.
Data centers provide computing facilities to large entities, such as online social networks, cloud computing services, online businesses, hospitals, and universities (Brady, et al. 2013). Data centers entail a cluster of interconnected...
