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These locations are selected strategically by companies as they are currently experiencing unprecedented digital growth and can offer greater sustainable infrastructure .
“ In these regions , established MTDCs with available space and power will be the first landing zones for many of these cloud companies ,” Lewis says .
“ However , in some instances , these data centre providers will need to change their go-to-market model from one of pure colocation to a hybrid model that allows mega-watt white space instals to co-exist in the same building or on the same campus as smaller customers .”
Maintaining safe colos in a turbulent cybersecurity landscape In a colocation environment , servers and networking equipment are housed in a third-party data centre , meaning that users rely on the data centre ’ s security infrastructure . Some of the cybersecurity risks associated with data centres include unauthorised access to hardware , or lacking security measures which could
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