The world's coolest data centres

By | Network World US
Published 13:01,

Data centres gobble up energy and generate heat, but here are somethat try to do it with their own flair

  • Pionen data centre, Sweden
  • Clumeq, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
  • Citi data centre, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Emerson data centre, Montana, US
  • Iron Mountain data centre, Pennsylvania, US
  • InfoBunker collocation facility, Iowa, US
  • i/o Data Centers's Phoenix ONE, Arizona, US
  • Lakeside technology centre, Illinois, US
  • @Tokyo data centre, Tokyo, Japan
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Pionen data centre, Sweden

Located in a Cold War era defence bunker, this data centre could take a hit from an H-bomb and keep on ticking. It takes advantage of some other military technology, enlisting dual submarine engines to power backup generators in case the conventional power grid fails. To make the working day bearable in a granite cave 100 feet below the streets of Stockholm, the facility has greenhouses, an artificial waterfall and a 686-gallon salt water fish tank.

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