Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 9, 2009 @02:21AM from the secret-lair-anyone dept.

twailgum writes "Twenty-two stories underground in Iron Mountain's Western Pennsylvania facility, 'you'll find Room 48, an experiment in data center energy efficiency. Open for just six months, the room is used by Iron Mountain to discover the best way to use geothermal conditions and engineering designs to establish the perfect environment for electronic documents. Room 48 is also being used to devise a geothermal-based environment that can be tapped to create efficient, low-cost data centers.'"

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Re:Is it worth the cost? by Thud457 · 2009-12-09 02:44 · Score: 4, Informative

The Iron Mountain facility in PA is recycling a old limestone mine, so it didn't cost them anything (extra) to dig out the space.

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