OOPS! The correct answer is "London, England"

London is home to largest number of data centers in any given city with just under 300. However, building and interconnecting data centers in London does present challenges given the city’s scarce real estate, limited fiber and high electrical cost. The next most concentrated area for data centers is the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area with roughly 240 data centers.

OOPS! The correct answer is "California"

California has over 300 data centers in the state. The large number of high-tech and Internet content provider companies based in California as well as the state’s population contributes to its data center density. However, California also ranks very high on the number of FEMA natural disaster declarations with over 200, second only to Texas so ensuring redundancy and data center interconnection are key. One of the largest data centers in the U.S. is the Switch SuperNAP located in a Las Vegas, NV. Its location is ideal because it’s not prone to severe weather events and has access to abundant green energy like hydroelectrics.

OOPS! The correct answer is "100"

The average data center consumes over 100 times the power of a large commercial office building. By 2020, many predict that the total U.S. data center power consumption will exceed 139 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) resulting in $13.7 billion in electrical bills. As a result, data center operators are increasingly looking at ways to reduce their power and space requirements via more efficient and green solutions to help cut costs and lower their carbon footprint.

OOPS! The correct answer is "Servers, Storage Devices and Networking/Telecom Equipment"

Data centers are extremely complicated entities, which leverage a wide range of critical technologies and types of equipment to operate. Computing, storage and connectivity are three key examples. Servers use fast computing algorithms required by applications to calculate different functions. Storage devices based on high-capacity disks store information saved or accessed by applications. And the ability to connect traffic between devices within the data center and externally to the data center from users and other data centers is critical because if there is no connectivity then you can’t access the servers or storage devices. This function is enabled by networking/telecom equipment.

OOPS! The correct answer is "6000+"

There are slightly over 6,000 data centers globally with over 2,200 of them in the top 20 global cities alone. The number of metropolitan area data centers continues to grow as content moves closer to the end user to support the requirements of real-time, on-demand and high-performance applications.