Hosting - Technology
Data centre
A building containing the computers, connections, power and cooling needed to run digital services
What's it for?
Provides the physical place, power and cooling needed to keep large numbers of computers running.
For example…
The bank keeps customer systems in two UK data centres so a power cut in one site does not stop online banking
A cloud provider's data centre contains racks of servers, redundant power and cooling so customer systems can keep running
Think of it like…
High-security warehouse for computers instead of boxes