What is often a major challenge to getting both redundant power and communications utility connections?

The challenge of locating datacenters often relates to the physical and logistical constraints involved in ensuring redundant power and communications utility connections. Datacenters need to be situated in areas where multiple providers can offer these services to maintain redundancy. However, many datacenters are located in regions that may not have the infrastructure to support multiple utility connections. This can make it difficult to secure backup power and communication lines, which are crucial for maintaining uptime and ensuring reliability in cloud-based services.

Furthermore, geographic factors, such as the proximity to major power sources and communication networks, directly influence the ability to obtain these redundant connections. In contrast, other factors like expense, personnel deployment, and carrying medium, while important, do not capture the specific infrastructural limitations imposed by the location of a datacenter as directly as the issue of redundancy does.