IT facility operations are often discussed in terms of servers, uptime, cooling, power, and cybersecurity, but the physical environment behind those systems matters just as much. A modern data center is a controlled facility built to support computer systems, storage, telecommunications, environmental controls, and physical security. As digital workloads keep expanding, the operational pressure on these environments continues to grow, with the International Energy Agency projecting that electricity supplied to data centres could rise from 460 TWh in 2024 to more than 1,000 TWh by 2030 in its base case. In that kind of high-stakes environment, even basic material-handling decisions…