Special Report
Data center building plans by companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are helping small rural towns cut deficits
As technology providers rush to build data centers that deliver computing over the Internet, Digital Realty's shares have more than tripled since 2008
Many U.S. businesses are locating their cloud operations in former mines and nuclear bunkers
Companies are building new data centers across the country to handle cloud computing. The market for wholesale data centers and collocation facilities is expected to grow between 19 percent and 20 percent per year over the next few years
In the past five years, Dell, Microsoft, Yahoo, Intuit, and Sabey have built or started to build data centers in a small town in central Washington called Quincy
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