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Nuke Site Converted Into Green Data Center

Posted by samzenpus on from the glowing-data dept.

1sockchuck writes "If you had 100,000 servers, would you put them on top of a former nuclear fuel facility? One of the world's largest web hosts, 1&1 Internet, is building a new data center on a site in Hanau, Germany previously used by Siemens to produce mixed oxide rods made from enriched uranium and plutonium. The site has been cleaned up, and 1&1 is converting it into a 'green' data center powered by renewable energy and using free cooling to save on air conditioning costs."

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  1. sssss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cant hear the name Siemens without giggling

    1. Re:sssss by Soruk · · Score: 5, Funny

      There were reasons they moved their UK operations from Staines (Middlesex).

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    2. Re:sssss by BattleApple · · Score: 2, Funny

      especially when rods are mentioned in the same sentence *teeheehee*

    3. Re:sssss by BronsCon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Gag on Siemens?

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  2. Big deal. Call me when they can do the reverse ... by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and convert a Green Data Center into a Nuke Site.

    THAT would be news.

  3. Green Power! by dkf · · Score: 4, Funny

    When they said "Green Power", did they prefix it with "Glowing"?

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  4. Re:Cleaned up? by Loibisch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, only one way to find out. Grab your nuclear gear, we're going on vacation!

  5. Does it come with a no-Stalagman warranty? by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what's their plan to deal with the Deep Crows?

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  6. Re:Green power by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the U.S., it means yellow power means 'powered by Mountain Dew'.

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  7. Re:So what? Why is this a front page story? by Shivetya · · Score: 4, Funny

    because we beat Digg to it!

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  8. Re:Cleaned up?-Unmanned. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely! The servers already glow green!

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  9. Central heating for sysadmins? by slashmojo · · Score: 2, Funny

    So no need for Ready Brek to make the sysadmins "Get up and Glow"

  10. Slashdot effect by DrYak · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and convert a Green Data Center into a Nuke Site.

    Well do you think a Data Center looks like, once simultaneously hit by slashdot and a bot net ?

    This has been done before. Repeatedly.

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  11. Re:Cleaned up? by beav007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oddly enough, TFA says nothing about the site being cleaned up.

    This statement seems odd to me. How do you know this?

  12. Re:Green power by Spazztastic · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the U.S., it means yellow power means 'powered by Mountain Dew'.

    So that's what they feed the hamsters on the wheels?

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