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Smart Buildings and Data Centers: There are more similarities than you may think
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I recently had the unique experience of touring a modern data center. It was not one of the newfangled artificial intelligence (A.I.) computing factories. It was a colocation data center, so it was run by a company that rents space to organizations that do not want to (or cannot) locate a data
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Let’s Get It Started: What you need to know before you begin
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In the past I have focused on the devices and appliances required in a fire alarm system, and now we can look at the full system requirements.
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