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Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center
An anonymous reader writes A German company has converted a 1960s nuclear bunker 100 miles from network hub Frankfurt into a state-of-the-art underground data center with very few operators and very little oxygen. IT Vision Technology (ITVT) CEO Jochen Klipfel says: 'We developed a solution that reduces the oxygen content in the air, so that even matches go outIt took us two years'. ITVT have the European Air Force among its customers, so security is an even higher priority than in the average DC build; the refurbished bunker has walls 11 feet thick and the central complex is buried twenty feet under the earth.
Hopefully the "low staff" was intentional, and not a side effect.
Do staff go down with O2 tanks for maintenance, cleaning, server work, etc?
Easy problem. They just hired some Perl divers to do admin. Those guys can hold their breath for an impressive amount of time and are comfortable with CLI use, natural fit.
So you're saying they just don't need U?
If it was underwater, the fire department probably wouldn't need to be there.