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gGiving your facilities a new lease of life

Some people want shiny new things . Others make a point of sweating their assets and keeping equipment in use until it has more than paid for itself . Neither group is right . When a facility is no longer capable of maintaining its peak performance , a full replacement can be hard to justify , but there will still be plenty of things that can be done to improve the operation of the building and its contents , without breaking the bank . This supplement is about the times those choices are made .
Upgrades and modernization are a hidden data center sector , obscured by the exponential growth in new facilities ( p4 ). And there can also be very good reasons why an older data center should be simply closed down and replaced , when its infrastructure ages . Today ’ s data centers are so different from those built 20 years ago , that it may be prohibitively expensive to completely remake an older building . But the pay-back time for a new build is longer than an upgrade ( especially if you include low-investment fixes like airflow improvements ). And some buildings are such prime locations that there ’ s no choice but to refit . ◊
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