Architects Design a 65-Story Data Center (computerworld.com)

Reader dcblogs writes: Two Italian architects have designed a data center that challenges how the structures are built. Instead of constructing a flat, sprawling complex, they are proposing a 65-story data center. From a visual perspective, the circular, futuristic-looking 'Data Tower,' as Marco Merletti and Valeria Mercuri call it, almost seems like something out of Star Trek. But it incorporates sustainable technology for efficiently cooling hundreds of thousands of servers while increasing reliance on automation. The building has a modular, cylindrical design that uses a series of pods to house servers, which are available for service in much the same way automated parking garage move cars. The data tower, as with a radiator, is designed to have the maximum contact surface with the outside. The pods are hooked on to the circular structure of the tower to form a series of vertical blades.

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Re:It should be shaped more like a cooling tower.

[Overzeetop]

When architects say "designed like a radiator" what they really mean is that they were artistically inspired by some sort of cooling device enclosure they took a fancy to. They have almost zero grasp of all but the most basic physics and have never, ever set foot in a thermodynamics class or done any substantial heat transfer coursework. Heck, most would be lucky to read a psychrometric chart.