New Datacenter In Underground Lair 109
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lobo235 writes to tell us that a new underground data center designed by Sweden's largest ISP is fit for a classic supervillain, complete with greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. "'Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus,' he said. 'Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans that are supposed to work with the stuff.'"
wait (Score:4, Insightful)
not to throw cold water on this idea (pun intended), but a waterfall creates mist
furthermore, a warm saltwater aquarium, with all of the agitation to keep the fish alive = saltwater mist
hmm, mist + server components (or worse, saltwater mist + server components) = BZZZZT
of course you could put an airlock and dehumidifiers in the server area, but thats a lot of extra expense
but hell, i think when you faithfully recreate a supervillain's lair, you're not exactly worried about being green or saving on power consumption
Re:Hm.... (Score:5, Insightful)
2600 L?
... cube root of 2600 is about 13.75... we're talking about a cube about 4' x 4' x 4'.
That's nothing. 1L = 1 dM^3
Carnivorous, cartilaginous fish? I think not. Perhaps they have room for some undersize ill-tempered sea bass.
Re:Lunar colonies (Score:2, Insightful)
not sustainable self-enclosed ecosystems, which is really what we need.
And they're awesome in other ways too (Score:5, Insightful)
This is the same ISP that started a campaign for privacy certification [integrity.st] of ISPs and that's fought tooth and nail against Lex Orwell [slashdot.org] - from general advertising/campaigning to releasing a public awareness-raising (open source) Firefox plugin [fradar.net] to stating that they will flat-out refuse to comply with any official wiretapping request [bahnhof.se]. (Swedish-only links I'm afraid)
They might actually need their bunker, with the way this country is going...
Re:Lunar colonies (Score:5, Insightful)
Um. Its a hole in the ground with stuff brought in through a tunnel that they ordered online and crap like that.
There's no radiation. No 250,000 mile trip to get there. No soul sucking vacuum outside. No corrosive, likely cancer causing dust. No gravity well to get out of or back into.
Building that provides as much engineering know-how related to moon colonies as the Lincoln Log houses I built as a 3 year old.
Re:Why? (Score:3, Insightful)
Guess you haven't played Fallout 3 yet or you'd know that any stray equipment left after a nuclear war can be turned into an awesome weapon :-)
Re:Rendered Photo's (Score:3, Insightful)
um, the images may have been cleaned up in Photoshop (just as most publicity/PR/ad photos and are), but they certainly aren't rendered. you need to get your eyes checked.