Hong Kong is a remarkable city. For much of its history, it served as the gateway between the East and the West. Colonized by the British in 1841, it welcomed European ships and enabled them to trade with the rest of Asia. In the digital age, the same city is quickly emerging as a key data center location. It leverages the same historic connections that made it into a global financial hub, with high-capacity fiber cables linking it to the Chinese mainland, and the bustling economies of Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. However, building and operating data…