New Datacenter In Underground Lair 109
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.'"
Hm.... (Score:5, Funny)
For a pleasant working environment the data center has simulated daylight, greenhouses, waterfalls and a huge 2600-liter salt water fish tank.
That's quite the fish tank... large enough for certain carnivorous, cartilanginous fish...
Backup power is handled by two Maybach MTU diesel engines producing 1.5 Megawatt of power.
Goodness that's a lot of power, certainly more than a standard set of servers would need. Why, with all that extra electricity you could probably power several deadly lase...OHMYGODWHAT HAVE WE LET THEM CREATE?!?
Re:Hm.... (Score:5, Funny)
At it only cost ONE......Million Dollars!
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OHMYGODWHAT HAVE WE LET THEM CREATE?!?
Begin the unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism!
Re:Idle section story? (Score:5, Funny)
You Fools! (Score:4, Funny)
and just for fun the people at Pionen have also installed the warning system (sound horns) from the original German submarine.
Sorry, but if i'm in an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuke, I would not think it very fun to have sound horns start blaring unexpectedly (as I run down the hallway screaming "you fools! you blew it all up!").
Swedish, eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Mmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Does it come complete with blond Swedish henchwoman too?
Not really supervillain-grade (Score:4, Funny)
Until they get half-pony half-monkey monsters and hordes of hungry wolves all over the grounds.
Trust me, I have this on good authority. [youtube.com]
Straight Out of The 1960's (Score:3, Funny)
Schwab
Evil... (Score:4, Funny)
on behalf of slashdot, let me be the first to say: (Score:5, Funny)
I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT
Mom! Christmas Present!
{collapses, quivering}
Re:Hm.... (Score:4, Funny)
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They do come in pocket size [wikipedia.org] versions.
Downside (Score:3, Funny)
Like this - http://tinyurl.com/58pela [tinyurl.com]
Or this - http://tinyurl.com/6a8cvg [tinyurl.com]
Perhaps even - http://tinyurl.com/5nuwl4 [tinyurl.com]
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Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)
You don't consider my porn collection to be of valuable use when the barbarians left alive from the Great War are trying to figure out what a Sybian or TENS unit was for? FOOL! They'll need study guides and inspiration if we truely want to repopulate the world.
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Re:Hm.... (Score:3, Funny)
And put frikkin LEDs on their heads!
Re:Hm.... (Score:1, Funny)
those cowards. does TPB really think that shielding themselves with 30m of bedrock and hiding beneath the city of Stockholm will stop the RIAA/MPAA from nuking them off the face of the planet?
if the war on Iraq has taught us anything, it's that such spineless tactics do not work on Americans. we'll destroy the enemy no matter how much collateral damage it might cause. a few hospitals and water processing plants are a small price to pay to defeat the terrorists. and music/movie pirates are certainly terrorists!
it's just too bad about the residents of Stockholm though. i guess they should have thought about that before deciding to harbor terrorists.
Re:Lunar colonies (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe not, but it will fit on NASA's set in the desert.
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