Recently, MPR’s President, Adam Waitkunas spoke with Dan Rabb from Bisnow about the growing opposition to data center developments from various communities. Adam provides some suggestions for strategies and how the industry should be implementing data center community relations and engagement, while educating the general public about data centers. You can read the full Bisnow here Data Center Community Relations Data Center Community Engagement Data Center Government Relations
Data Center knowledge recently spoke with Milldam’s President, Adam Waitkunas about the increased pushback of data center development and the importance of data center community relations and engagement. In the piece, Adam highlights the need for data center developers to engage at the local level and have a community relations plan for each development. With each community comes a different set of challenges. You can read the full piece here
See Milldam’s dedicated Data Center Community Relations Service During the past few years, data centers have increased their presence in the suburbs. In response, many local communities are speaking out and resisting this transformation. For example, two cities in Arizona and communities in Virginia, Connecticut and Oregon are complaining and want to stop future data center development. Data center owners and operators must be aware of this and have a strategy for data center community […]
Revisiting Data Center Crisis Communications Yesterday, we released the October edition of the Milldam Monthly. This month’s newsletter highlighted the importance of preparing for a crisis. Facebook’s recent outage has renewed the industry’s attention to data center downtime and how outages are handled. Getting in front of a negative story while keeping the lines of communication open for all stakeholders, and ensuring that employees are not going rogue can help lessen the blow to corporate […]
The importance of being prepared for a crisis! By Amanda Brooks Last week on Monday, October 4, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down for six hours and three billion people were affected from all corners of the world. Facebook went down for a bit on Thursday, October 8 as well. “I don’t know If I’ve seen an outage like this before from a major internet firm,” said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at network […]
Having a crisis communications plan and being able to implement it is akin to an insurance policy for your organization’s reputation. Over the last several years, we have seen numerous critical infrastructure providers and others throughout the data center ecosystem demonstrate a lack of communications preparedness when a serious event takes place.
