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provide the more powerful computing
and faster connections necessary
for smart-city, smart-transportation,
smart grid, tele-medicine and other
highly valuable digital applications
and services. “This means high-performance
data centers in the centre
of every population center,” he says.
“We’ve seen this dynamic before with
the buildout of other forms of public
and private infrastructure—such as
electricity and gas delivery, public
water systems, telecommunications,
highways, railroads, airports, ports,
and even overnight package delivery.
To these we will now add warehouses
of computers, countless miles of
fiber optics, and an endless array of
wireless devices linking everyone to
everything digital. We need to make
sure that the environmental footprint
of the data centers at the heart of all
of this well serves both society and the
planet. It’s very exciting.”
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