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prone to earthquakes . A subterranean pendulum isolation system protects the building from the ground moving below it . Using the same system , NTT ’ s Tokyo facilities were unharmed by the catastrophic 9.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated eastern Japan in 2011 .
This is a great illustration of one of the advantages that RagingWire gains from its parent group , however Dalton returns to the agility RagingWire offers as the main differentiator across the USA . “ We have been innovating in the area of modular design and supply chain , to both shorten construction lead times and to lower costs ,” Dalton says . “ There are huge advantages in having standard designs where we can pretty much drop in electrical and mechanical modules at any location around the country . Time to market is vital to the cloud providers .”
With this approach , the equipment for an electrical room can be reduced to a couple of elements that fit on a flatbed truck for delivery to a core and shell at any location in the country .
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