[Nottingham] Eight Pictures of the World's Stunning Datacenters

James of the family Moore jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 13 23:26:35 UTC 2010


GCHQ has a massive datacentre. I mean, gigantic. There's very few, if
any photos of it around though. Couldn't play Doom on it, but it can
store practically infinite amounts of data. It's probably got more
storage on it than the entire Internet...

On 4/14/10, Going It Alone <reggaemaker at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Impressive datacenters.  One question though, do they really need so
> much computing power just to play Freecell? :D
>
> On 13 April 2010 23:48, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Possibly of interest to those of the group lost deep in their bunkers
>> around the world:
>>
>> Eight Pictures of the World's Stunning Datacenters
>> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/datacenters-bahnhof-isp-data-center-microsoft-chicago,news-33188.html
>>
>> I've seen lots of 19" racks and modular, but modular on the scale of
>> full-sized shipping containers?...
>>
>> I quite like the claim for the Swedish datacentre that it is probably
>> the most well known datacentre in the world... (Or was that some lager?)
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Martin
>>
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