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Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center

Posted by timothy on from the no-humans-involved dept.

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.

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  1. European Air Force? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no such thing!!!

  2. This is logistically impossible. by ciscoguy01 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Haha. This is essentially impossible.
    The more equipment, the more broken equipment, the more techs need to go in to work on it.
    An airless data center would have to be a very small data center, because if someone has to go in and fix something, well, they are gonna need oxygen.

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  3. Re:How is maintenance performed? by RabidReindeer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're employing a gas that's heavier than air in an underground environment, I rather doubt that you'll need to worry about its greenhouse properties.

    The greenhouse gasses I worry about are the ones that rise up overhead.

    No matter how many panes of glass your greenhouse has, if they're lying on the floor, they're not going to do much.