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Huge Data Center Looks Like a Circuit Board

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hopefully-the-inside-is-as-advanced-as-the-outside dept.

1sockchuck writes to share a look at Digital Beijing, the data center for the 2008 Olympics. The huge (1.05 million square feet) building was designed to resemble a circuit board from 2 sides and a barcode from the other 2 ground-viewable sides. Looks like the nighttime view of this monster is going to be pretty impressive.

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  1. Bad planning by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately, they spent so much money building such an enormous and impressive data center that they have nothing left for servers. Therefore, the IT needs for the Olympic games will be served by a single Pentium II PC on the 8th floor. They are expected to have uptime rivaling that of such giants as Amazon.com.

    1. Re:Bad planning by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, this is China. They'll just pack the building full of political dissidents. Overseers with cattle prods will call out opcodes for them to process with abacuses.

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    2. Re:Bad planning by jonaskoelker · · Score: 2, Funny

      Everybody remember the old IBM commercial, "The Heist"?

      "No, we moved everything onto that one. It's gonna save us a bundle."

      IBM Pentium II white-box servers running... hey, it does run Linux...

  2. Being in China, I guess that PCB will be... by Ellis+D.+Tripp · · Score: 2, Funny

    put together with plenty of lead in the solder, right?

    Now all they need are some counterfeit electrolytic caps puking their guts all over the windows for added effect.

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  3. Re:Circuit board? by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 3, Funny

    It looks like there aren't any windows. Open source architecture...?

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  4. Re:It's a magebyte of square feet! by Freebirth+Toad · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, that'd be (10^6 feet)^2 = 10^12 feet^2 = a trillion square feet. This would be better described as a (kibifoot)^2 = a mebi(square foot).

  5. Re:It's a magebyte of square feet! by merreborn · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a magebyte of square feet!
    Å måge ønce byt my sister...
  6. Is it just me, or does it look like the Borg? by Enleth · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the phrase "resistance is futile, you will be assimilated" isn't exactly unlike the People's Republic of China...

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