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James Bond Villain Data Center
jeet writes "Data centers are boring and NOCs are doubly so. But this one sure beats all of them. Found this video of a data center suited for james bond villain on Data Center Knowledge website.
The facility is established in a hydrogen bomb safe bunker and has generators used in German submarines. The CEO takes you around and shows some other cool features."
Isn't cheaper to just build a building than to refurbish some of these locations?
Since we have seen a lot of this refurbished locations, a smart guess would say 'no'.
--- "When you gotta do something wrong. You gotta do it right. (Fighter)"
Bond: Surely you don't expect me to do a chain of thirty joins on tables with a quadrillion records each?
Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
It's usually not cheaper to demolish and build new.
You have the cost of demo, construction, zoning issues, etc. If you can find a location that has many of the characteristics you need, you're usually better off. If you find a location that isn't suitable for much else, you can usually get it cheap.
By the way, the guy in the video looked familiar. At first I thought all the network people looked and sounded the same. But it turns out he's Dean Nelson, Senior Director Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services at Sun and founder of Data Center Pulse. I remember him from this data center video.
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We've read about this particular data center before, though we didn't have this video. The first link in TFA has layouts and other pictures. Very cool.
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They are leasing the bunker from FÃrsvarsmakten for 25k Swedish Kronor about $3k per month on a 25 year contract. So its quite cheap.
A friend of mine handled the construction of this one, and is currently building another "bunker data center" for bahnhof.