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22 MODULAR DATA CENTRES recovery situation such as a flood, so you want to keep it off-site. A containerised solution can be fully designed, fitted out and tested at a separate location. It could even be running in a separate location mirroring servers at the main location and can then be dropped in as a ‘clone’ when needed. The need to be mobile The beauty of containerised data centres is that they are very easily moved between locations, even shipped around the world, if your builder has the correct Lloyd’s certification