Data Center Industry 101
Industry Intelligence • Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

Data Center Industry 101

How digital infrastructure powers the modern world

85 minutes
101
Self-paced

Beginner-friendly course explaining how data centers operate and scale

Course Overview

Data centers form the backbone of the digital economy, enabling cloud computing, enterprise IT, AI, and internet services. This course explains how data centers are designed, built, powered, cooled, secured, and operated, along with the business models, costs, and risks involved in running large-scale digital infrastructure.

What You'll Learn

Understand data center components
Power, cooling, and networking
Cloud & colocation models
Data center costs & risks
Data center career paths

Why This Course?

Practitioner-led content
Context before tools
Modular & practical
India-first, globally relevant

Curriculum

Introduction to Data Centers

What data centers are and why they matter

Data Center Infrastructure

Power, cooling, servers, networking

Operations & Reliability

Uptime, redundancy, monitoring

Business Models & Costs

Capex, opex, colocation, cloud

Future of Digital Infrastructure

AI, edge, green data centers

Who This Is For

Engineering studentsMBA / IT management studentsIT infrastructure professionalsCareer switchersConsultants / Analysts

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, no prior knowledge required
Around 85 minutes
Yes, after completion

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