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New Datacenter In Underground Lair
lobo235 writes to tell us that a new underground data center designed by Sweden's largest ISP is fit for a classic supervillain, complete with greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. "'Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus,' he said. 'Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans that are supposed to work with the stuff.'"
2600 L?
... cube root of 2600 is about 13.75... we're talking about a cube about 4' x 4' x 4'.
That's nothing. 1L = 1 dM^3
Carnivorous, cartilaginous fish? I think not. Perhaps they have room for some undersize ill-tempered sea bass.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
This is the same ISP that started a campaign for privacy certification of ISPs and that's fought tooth and nail against Lex Orwell - from general advertising/campaigning to releasing a public awareness-raising (open source) Firefox plugin to stating that they will flat-out refuse to comply with any official wiretapping request. (Swedish-only links I'm afraid)
They might actually need their bunker, with the way this country is going...
Um. Its a hole in the ground with stuff brought in through a tunnel that they ordered online and crap like that.
There's no radiation. No 250,000 mile trip to get there. No soul sucking vacuum outside. No corrosive, likely cancer causing dust. No gravity well to get out of or back into.
Building that provides as much engineering know-how related to moon colonies as the Lincoln Log houses I built as a 3 year old.