Perhaps more importantly, this resource potential is a hop, skip and a jump away from the mega-demand centers along the coastal regions of the East Coast.
The proximity of offshore wind in the the Atlantic Ocean to deep demand centers avoids the problems of moving power over long distances and significantly enhances the economic fundamentals of mega projects like those currently being considered in North Carolina.
Like China, the prodigious expansion of power production from renewable-energy resources like wind, solar energy and geothermal has outpaced the ability of the transmission systems to move these new power supplies to centers of demand.
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Many more of those regions' consumers now own cars, he notes, a phenomenon that has stimulated demand for more destination shopping centers.
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But demand for space in existing shopping centers remains anemic, limiting rent increases.
Second Harvest, the largest food-bank network in the country, says that about half its 183 food-distribution centers have reported increased demand over the past year.
Then, companies must also invest in proper warehouses and distribution centers to keep up with demand.
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High overhead makes it hard for new centers to keep up with demand.
That is decreasing demand for space in the REITs' centers and is further troubling because the big technology companies potentially could compete with REITs by leasing out space to smaller businesses.
Italy, which has one of the largest gold jewelry manufacturing centers in the world, saw demand by tonnage decline by 15 percent in 2012.
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As more enterprises shut down their in-house data centers and turn to on-demand storage and computing services delivered via the Internet, their storage needs become more variable and less predictable.
Their economies are growing slower, but are still humming along as upwardly mobile Chinese drive demand for housing and consumer goods in those hot urban centers.
Also with very limited new development and weaker centers flushed out by the recession, the demand for space has increased and that has provided mall owners with enhanced occupancy margins.
React to outside power grid risks and demand response requests: To reduce risk of application outages, data centers must be able to closely monitor the facility and surrounding environment as well as their IT equipment.
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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.
Amazon has announced 19 new fulfillment centers worldwide to be opened in time to support this year's holiday demand.
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Drivers access the Ford Service Delivery Network, a network of data centers providing turn-by-turn directions, business searches, and on-demand news, sports and weather information, through a simple voice-connection using their cell phone.
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Recent economic uncertainty, combined with a trend toward content growth on remote data centers (cloud storage) and the use of this content on mobile devices, is impacting the demand for digital storage capacity.
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