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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 What's behind the global self-storage boom? BBC  Innovation 26 July, 2024 | 925 words | ★★ ★ ☆ ☆ Walking the endless corridors of Apple Storage in downtown Toronto, it’s not hard to see why business is booming. Behind one metal shutter, hundreds of candles are being boxed ready to be shipped around the world, behind another another an e-bike repair shop fixes transport for the city’s hundreds of delivery riders. There’s even a locker full of bitcoin ATM machines, technology banned in the UK, but legal here in Canada, which enables bitcoin owners to exchange the digital currency for cash, or vice versa. Showing me around the long, brightly lit corridors lined with rows of shuttered metal doors is David Allan, one of the owners. He says 70% of this facility is rented by businesses. “In a pre-Covid world, office rents went to around C$60 ($44; £34) a foot, while you could get storage at the time for $30 a foot. " ………………………………