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4 things data center providers must do

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4 things data center providers must do
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For decades, the data center industry operated by a simple playbook: Find fiber, find a cluster, call the utility last. Energy was an afterthought. The prolonged contraction of U.S. industry left surplus power that our sector absorbed on favorable terms, without owing much in return.



Today, energy is both the most critical and most constrained variable in our business. Speed to power has become the single biggest determinant of whether a project gets built and how quickly it can start operati

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