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Sun to Create Underground Japanese Datacenter
Kurtz'sKompund writes with word of a Sun project in Japan, one that's taking a somewhat non-standard approach to data center construction. To save on power, heating, and water costs, the consortium is going to be building their center in an abandoned coal mine. The outpost will be created by lowering Blackbox systems into the ground; estimates on savings run to $9 million annually in electricity alone.
...does it run Linux?
Sun to Create Japanese Datacenter where the Sun don't shine.
Since this is a basement dweller's dream job come true, Sun won't have to pay too much for labor.
Two possible outcomes:
1: Mine collapses, buries everything under millions of tons of rocks and stuff, Blackboxes and cabling survives, Sun market's "the world's most secure datacenter".
2: Mine collapses, buries everything under millions of tons of rocks and stuff, Blackboxes and/or cabling gets scratched and/or really damaged, Sun hires Godzilla (this is Japan, where Godzilla's big in, remember?) to smash away them rocks and free the mine once again.
has been reading Cryptonomicon.
By what name do you wish to be mourned?
Sun to create datacenter in the land of the rising Sun.
"If the tunnels collapse how will you get to and from the servers for maintenance?"
Good reason to have onsite admins!
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Whoa. Coincidentally, that's the optimum incubation temperature for Mothra larvae.
For the sake of humanity, let's hope that Sun is factoring this into their cooling calculations.
"If the tunnels collapse how will you get to and from the servers for maintenance?"
man ssh
They save a bundle in HVAC costs, but now they face the prospect of black lung disease...
Taking stuff apart since 1969 (TM)
Thanks, Yoda.
What was once true, is no longer so
If they name the systems in that facility the MAGI, I think it's time I move a few hundred miles inland.
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.