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Environmental Concerns for a Server Room?

Posted by Cliff on from the external-worries dept.

christian_thoma asks: "My company is currently in the preparation phase for building a huge new manufacturing facility. While reviewing the site plan, I've discovered that there is both a cell phone tower and high voltage lines within 100-150 meters of where the server room is going to be placed. Do I need to be concerned? Are there any special considerations when designing my server room that I need to be aware of? Has anyone else had to deal with a similar situation?"

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  1. Re:Fossil fuels by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Those IMSAI's felt like they were burning coal, what with the red-hot LM7805 regulators glowing on the sides of the board.

    You could tell the time-in-service of a memory board by how dark the printed circuit board material had become around the regulator.

    The good old days....

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  2. well there's one benefit... by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Interesting
    you'll always have five bars of signal strength... or would that be the end of the old "no signal" excuse favoured by those who're trying to avoid being dragged off to the next fire-fighting fix episode...

    Seriously... get the server room shielded with wire mesh built into the walls and conductive film on the windows... like a Faraday Cage... then you won't get weird interference problems

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  3. Hope you have some newer Sparcs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I don't know why or the exact scenarios, but some of the older UltraSparc processors would have a problem of individual bits flipping in the processor's cache... talk about troubleshooting DB problems, the actual IDs for objects in the DBs changed!

  4. CRT screen problems by wimbor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Our previous building was located just underneath high-voltage power lines. We had to buy laptops and later stand-alone LCD screens because all CRT screens were wobbling due to interference from the power lines...

    I'm no electrical expert, so I have no idea how far this effect reaches, but I would be very prudent and try to measure/test the area for interference.

    1. Re:CRT screen problems by ldspartan · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That'd be electromagnetism at work. Farmer's occasionally steal power by setting up large coils of wire under a high tension transmission line and hooking them up to whatever they wanted power.

      More than anything else, this sounds like a good excuse to get some nice LCDs :).

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