Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: March 27, 2020

How Zoom, Netflix, and Dropbox are Staying Online During the Pandemic - Inside the efforts to keep the quarantined world’s popular internet services running smoothly.

UK Data Centers Plead for Critical Status for Contractors as Coronavirus Takes Hold - British government has designated data center operators as critical but not their heavily relied upon third-party contractors.

Data Center Investors Expect to Cash in on Africa’s Population Boom - Capital is pouring into digital infrastructure in the continent’s politically stable countries with deregulated telecom markets.

Just How Much Energy Will Edge Data Centers Consume? - An estimate says data centers, including edge sites, will soon use four times the energy all data centers used in 2018. Can it be true?

See How Internet Traffic Has Shifted in Big Metros During the Lockdown - As schools and offices closed in recent weeks, and as activity all but died out in city centers, internet infrastructure operators have seen not only an increase in web traffic, they’ve seen changes in traffic patterns – when people access the internet and from where.