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The key to the data center, from the beginning, was reliability.
– Tim Treat, senior engineer, Peterson Power Systems
territory but Sprint wanted one dealer, one engi- neer, and one bill.” And that became the standard. “That first nationwide project with a contractor based in Minnesota gave us the confidence to jump at the dot-com opportunity a year later,” says Treat. “If the customer was in our territory, or the purchase order was written in our territory, then we could deliver generators anywhere,” says Klud- jian. “And we did—in Ashburn, Virginia, Wash- ington DC, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and all across the country.”
ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
As the Internet grew, so did the demand for more bandwidth. Streaming video, social media, on- line shopping and telecommuting all contributed to the need for more transmission capacity. Some of the hyperscale customers Peterson delivered to became known simply as FAANG. These enter- prise hyperscale data centers are owned by massive public companies who used the entire data center for their own operations. That is until they started building such large infrastructures that they could offer bandwidth space to outsiders. Other small- er enterprise data centers like Kaiser Permanente and Visa built solely for their own use. Still oth- ers, known as co-location centers (co-lo’s), provide
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