Data Centers Meeting the Digital Demand
October 1, 2019 | Nareit Staff | Reit.com
Between the constant access to information via our wireless phones and devices, the proliferation of streaming media, and the abundance of smart-home technology, the amount of data consumed daily continues to grow exponentially. The job of storing, securing, processing, and providing access to that information often falls on data centers owned by REITs. These data centers house the servers and network equipment that support modern communications and the internet-of-things.
Data centers provide the real estate to house a highly reliable, secure environment for communications and data, including cooling and electrical power systems as well as backup generators and redundant systems to protect networks in the event of flooding, hurricanes, or other disasters. Systems are scalable to accommodate any size user, with connections to other users inside the same data center, elsewhere in the United States, across the globe or in the cloud.
