Florida Town Builds Data Center In Water Tank

miller60 writes "The Florida town of Altamonte Springs has converted an old water storage tank into a new data center. The decommissioned tank previously held up to 770,000 gallons of water, but its 18-inch-thick walls provided a hurricane-proof home for the town's IT gear, which had to be relocated three times in 2004 to ride out major storms. The Altamonte Springs facility is the latest example of data centers in strange places, including chapels, shopping malls, cargo ships, old particle accelerators and caves."

Comments

Lightning

[mosel-saar-ruwer]

Isn't a water tower made out of, ah, metal?

And don't they get these things called, ah, thunderstorms in Florida?

And don't thunderstorms produce these surges of static electricity called, ah - help me out here - ah, lightning?

And, ah, wouldn't lightning be attracted to all that metal stuff?

Seriously - I hope that somebody put some long hard thought into how they are going to try to ground this thing.

And what the heck kind of surge protectors are going to be sitting at the ingress and egress points.