Editing Data center (section)

== Micro data center ==
'''Micro data centers (MDCs)''' are access-level data centers which are smaller in size than traditional data centers but provide the same features.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ibrahim |first1=Rosdiazli |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tabEAAAQBAJ&dq=micro+data+center&pg=PA461 |title=International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Smart Community: AISC 2020, 17–18 December, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia |last2=Porkumaran |first2=K. |last3=Kannan |first3=Ramani |last4=Nor |first4=Nursyarizal Mohd |last5=Prabakar |first5=S. |date=2022-11-13 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-981-16-2183-3 |pages=461 |language=en}}</ref> They are typically located near the data source to reduce communication delays, as their small size allows several MDCs to be spread out over a wide area.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Guo |first1=Song |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IxVEAAAQBAJ&dq=micro+data+center&pg=PA12 |title=Edge Learning for Distributed Big Data Analytics: Theory, Algorithms, and System Design |last2=Qu |first2=Zhihao |date=2022-02-10 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-83237-3 |pages=12–13 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWV2EAAAQBAJ&dq=micro+data+center&pg=PA55 |title=Research Anthology on Edge Computing Protocols, Applications, and Integration |date=2022-04-01 |publisher=IGI Global |isbn=978-1-6684-5701-6 |pages=55 |language=en}}</ref> MDCs are well suited to user-facing, front end applications.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Furht |first1=Borko |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29UIY9EZTzYC&dq=micro+data+center&pg=PA17 |title=Handbook of Data Intensive Computing |last2=Escalante |first2=Armando |date=2011-12-09 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4614-1414-8 |pages=17 |language=en}}</ref> They are commonly used in [[edge computing]] and other areas where low latency data processing is needed.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Srivastava |first1=Gautam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahvHEAAAQBAJ&dq=micro+data+center&pg=PA17 |title=Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Edge Computing |last2=Ghosh |first2=Uttam |last3=Lin |first3=Jerry Chun-Wei |date=2023-06-24 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-031-28150-1 |pages=17 |language=en}}</ref>