"If I were a betting man, I would feel safe putting money on you being woken up by a smartphone alarm this morning. Maybe you looked at your texts, perused your news apps or (if you're like me) played Quartiles while you made your coffee and checked work emails. I'm also willing to bet that at some point in the last week you got in your car or took a hike and used GPS,"
"Sure, data centers store, process and share the data for businesses users - but in doing so, they support end users' entire digital world and everything in it. Without data centers, flights would be grounded (pilots could not get weather info and flight plans would not be available), communication would become rudimentary, payments would stop processing (welcome back, bartering) - even 911, which goes through an online system, would shut down. That's just the beginning."
People use smartphones and apps dozens if not hundreds of times a day for personal and professional tasks. Cloud-connected, internet-based technologies enable daily routines from morning alarms and news checks to navigation and in-flight entertainment. Data centers store, process and share data for businesses and support end users' entire digital world. Critical services depend on data centers: flights need weather and flight plans, communications rely on online systems, payments process via networks, and emergency services like 911 use online systems. Without data center infrastructure, transportation, communication, commerce, and emergency response would be severely disrupted.
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