Florida Town Builds Data Center In Water Tank 104
miller60 writes "The Florida town of Altamonte Springs has converted an old water storage tank into a new data center. The decommissioned tank previously held up to 770,000 gallons of water, but its 18-inch-thick walls provided a hurricane-proof home for the town's IT gear, which had to be relocated three times in 2004 to ride out major storms. The Altamonte Springs facility is the latest example of data centers in strange places, including chapels, shopping malls, cargo ships, old particle accelerators and caves."
And it's great for sysadmins (Score:2, Funny)
You just dive in and swim to the server racks.
Re:And it's great for sysadmins (Score:5, Funny)
You just dive in and swim to the server racks.
There's a new job opening in Altamonte, a sysadmin that is SCUBA certified.
in my pocket, on my droid (Score:4, Funny)
...is more compute power, memory and disk than the Cray-2 I did my dissertation work on.
Re:Lightning (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously - I hope that somebody put some long hard thought into how they are going to try to ground this thing.
Um, the cold water pipe?
Do these people know nothing? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't put your data centers in caves, mines, hurricane proof water tanks, etc.
When the time comes that we need to unplug skynet, you are just making things hard.
Much better than new tank into old data center (Score:1, Funny)
Good thing they didn't convert a new water storage tank into an old data center.
Inevitable Onion headline (Score:4, Funny)
"Area Data Center Actually Located in Data Center Facility; IT Experts Confused, Baffled"
I think I got this email before (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Editors on the job as usual (Score:1, Funny)
The dome-shaped tank offered 8-inch-thick walls of reinforced concrete and was
8, 18, close enough I guess.
Try using that argument to defend a statutory rape case!
Re:The next one in... (Score:3, Funny)
When did John Connor become Irish?