A fire immersed Heathrow in darkness. A database nearby continued to hum. Why?
                    A new shimmering data center is less than half a mile from the electrical substation in which a fire immersed Heathrow airport in the darkness last week. The power of the data center has also been cut that day. But nobody who entrusted themselves would have noticed, thanks to a Battery Bank and backup generators designed to start instantly.In the meantime, it has taken officials of the busiest airport of Europe close to 18 hours to bring the terminals and the slopes into operation, causing global travel delays and underlining the vulnerability of British infrastructures.It is a surprising contrast that energy experts say can be explained largely by a word: money."The data center industry is relatively young. They are more in tune with the cost of a catastrophic failure," said Simon Gallagh...                
                
            









