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Facilities
Data center facilities are custom-designed locations that are outfitted with specialized computing, storage, and network equipment. These facilities have several functional layout areas, as well as various power supplies, cabling, and environmental control stations that regulate heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire protection, and other related subsystems.
The site and layout of a given data center facility are typically demarcated into segregated spaces.