Data center in old nuke bunker is the bomb

Opinion

Nov 14, 20081 min

Here’s an interesting data-center profile from the blog at Royal Pingdom, a Web monitoring company headquartered in Sweden:

This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain.

Lots of fun pictures.

Data Center

by Paul McNamara

News Editor

In addition to my editing duties, I have written Buzzblog since January, 2006 and wrote the 'Net Buzz column in Network World's dearly departed print edition for 13 years. Feel free to e-mail me at pmcnamara@nww.com.

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