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A Data Center That Looks Like a Mansion

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 22, 2012 @05:17AM from the home-of-the-data dept.

1sockchuck writes "A luxury homebuilder in Minnesota wants to build a data center that looks like a mansion, allowing the commercial building to fit into a residential neighborhood. The 'community-based data center' designed for FiberPop features a stone facade and sloped roof with dormers, along with an underground data hall."

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Re:Minnetonka, Minnesota by CapOblivious2010 · 2012-01-22 05:23 · Score: 4, Insightful

It seems like some of the most expensive land you can buy, so I'm not sure why they'd want to use it for a data center, which can be built pretty much anywhere (and which is generally not staffed by mansion-dwellers)