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A staff member works among the racks and network switches in the data center of LightEdge Solutions in Altoona, Iowa. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A staff member works among the racks and network switches in the data center of LightEdge Solutions in Altoona, Iowa.

Resilience in a Pandemic: Smaller Data Center Providers Hang On, Hold Fast

America's local and regional data centers have been operating on full alert. And it’s been three months for them, not two.

Day One for many of America’s regional and metropolitan data center providers may have been Monday, February 3, 2020. Just over two weeks earlier, the State of New York issued a warning to its clinical laboratories and healthcare facilities to prepare for a potential outbreak of a mutated animal virus, linked to a seafood and animal market in Wuhan, China. It had been reported to the World Health Organization on December 31, although China officials dismissed it that day as “

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