Despite industry portrayals of permanence, data centers relocate on three-to-six-year cycles as servers become obsolete. Ericsson's $1.3 billion facility in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec closed within a year of opening after cloud storage demand fell short of projections. Communities banking on long-term economic returns from hosting agreements face a different timeline.
Data Centres as Impermanent Infrastructures
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