Today we want to tell you about three amazing data centers
Hidden deep in a mountain, Green Mountain’s data centre is cooled by the cold waters of a Norwegian fjord 🇳🇴 Working with nature, Green Mountain is saving energy and protecting the environment — leading the way to cutting data centre energy use by a third ♻
Microsoft Project Natick, a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter. The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor approximately one kilometer off the Pacific coast of the United States from August to November of 2015 🇺🇸 Project Natick reflects Microsoft’s ongoing quest for cloud datacenter solutions that offer rapid provisioning, lower costs, high responsiveness, and are more environmentally sustainable 🔆
Bahnhof - Pionen. One of Sweden's most modern data centers deep in the bedrock 🇸🇪 The space was originally a military bunker from World War II which was built to withstand nuclear attacks. The center possesses the latest in security, UPS, cooling and electrical power ⚠ Of course, all set with redundancy. If the center would be subjected to an extended power outage is also heavy diesel generators on site to keep the stream alive. Besides this, it is also guarded against fire and floods. Obviously, the whole center is video monitored around the clock 📹
We wonder, in what unusual places are the nodes of our providers? Tell us about it 😉
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