Data Center 101 | New Space Economy

Infographic summarizing the electrical path through a data center, including utility power, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, batteries, generators, distribution equipment, and racks, along with redundancy, backup procedures, and power sourcing options.

HOW DATA CENTERS ARE POWERED

Infographic describing the interconnected systems in a modern data center, including servers, storage, networking equipment, power infrastructure, cooling systems, security, monitoring, redundancy, backup power, and efficiency measures.

INSIDE A MODERN DATA CENTER

Infographic summarizing how data centers use electricity, water, land, construction materials, and carbon-intensive operations, and describing efficiency measures, lifecycle planning, and key sustainability practices.

THE DATA CENTER RESOURCE FOOTPRINT

Infographic tracing a digital request through eight stages: user device, internet connection, edge security, load balancer, application servers, data and storage, processing complete, and response delivery.

HOW DATA MOVES THROUGH A DATA CENTER

Infographic summarizing how data centers use redundant power, networks, cooling, storage, servers, and failover systems, with N+1, 2N, and diverse-by-design models plus monitoring and recovery practices.

DATA CENTER RELIABILITY AND REDUNDANCY

Infographic explaining how users and applications connect through routers, firewalls, a spine-and-leaf network fabric, servers, storage, services, and data center operations, with sections on traffic flow, performance, resilience, protocols, benefits, and best practices.

DATA CENTER NETWORKING EXPLAINED

Infographic explaining that secure facilities use computing, storage, networking, power, cooling, and security systems to process and protect data and support services such as cloud platforms, websites, databases, payments, healthcare, and connected devices.

WHAT IS A DATA CENTER?

Infographic explaining how data centers manage heat from computing equipment, power systems, and high-density racks through airflow, chilled water, air handling, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and immersion cooling, with guidance on efficiency, maintenance, and planning.

HOW DATA CENTERS STAY COOL

An infographic explains how artificial intelligence workloads are driving changes in data-center compute, networking, power, cooling, storage, and software, and compares traditional systems with AI-oriented infrastructure.

FROM TRADITIONAL DATA CENTERS TO AI FACTORIES

Infographic explaining enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, cloud, edge, modular, and government or high-performance computing data centers, with comparisons of scale, ownership, location, latency, flexibility, use cases, and benefits.

THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DATA CENTERS