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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. Half Life 2 Reference? by VeNoM0619 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this remind anyone of the Half Life 2 building? Where it was held loosely together with lots of gaps. Very cool nonetheless.

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  2. It's a magebyte of square feet! by Hankapobe · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1.05 million square feet

    1.05 million ~ 1,048,576 -> megabyte! Cool!

  3. And once the Olympics are over... by pillageplunder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As quoted in the article "then be used by the Beijing municipal government's data storage and emergency-response command."
    Really!? Like...that conjures up all kinds of thoughts in a paranoid mind. That is quite a lot of computing power for a major city to use by itself. (wink wink). Imagine all of the data connections that were once used for sporting news now being utilized for...GTA? Well, Buick and Cadillac sell some serious iron in China as well.

    A follow-on story after the games would be quite interesting to read.

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