The critical advantage of distributing data centers around the country is the availability of land at affordable prices. Once you reach outside of the most populated areas in the country, there’s a much greater possibility of placing multiple centers instead of monolithic structures. The local data centers can also be much smaller, more like a shipping container than a 2-story building. With technology allowing computing units that small to do massive amounts of work, the incentive for spreading these smaller centers around becomes very clear.

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