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AOL: Outdoor Server Huts Are the Future

Posted by timothy on from the would-look-good-on-the-cover-of-2600 dept.

1sockchuck writes "While Facebook and Apple are investing in huge data cathedrals, AOL has decided to go in a different direction: a distributed network of rack-sized server huts that live outdoors. AOL is taking the concept for its unmanned data center and shrinking it into a 'micro data center.' AOL envisions a distributed network of these units, allowing it to quickly roll out new IT capacity for hyperlocal news sites and create its own content distribution network."

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  1. CBG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    envisions a distributed network of these units, allowing it to quickly roll out new IT capacity for hyperlocal news sites and create its own content distribution network

    Ahh someone's been visiting the Corporate Bullshit Generator LOL!

    1. Re:CBG by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Brevity is the essence of wit."

      I see what you

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  2. Makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their clients still live in huts, so it makes sense to move their servers there too..

  3. If There's Ever A Company To Trust by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there's ever a company to trust when it comes to predicting the future, it's AOL. Why just three years ago they predicted they'd have to move away from dial-up since broadband would be the wave of the future and look at how right they were.

  4. Re:Have they thought this through? by pem · · Score: 3, Funny

    Being picked up and carried off? (Kind of like an ATM, but for the data inside instead of the cash.)

  5. Bonanza! by RKBA · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is a bonanza for scrap metal dealers and the scroungers who steal things like lamp posts, wiring and plumbing from abandoned houses, etc., because the contents of one of these unmanned micro data centers must be worth lot more than a lamp post to scrap dealers.

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