World’s Most Stunning Data Centers
Who says technology can’t be art? Taking a break from our typical hacks and mods, we bring you the most impressive data centers of the world. Pictured above and below, Microsoft seems to have their top-secret data center organization down to an art. As you can see, the final results are just breath taking.
Sweeden’s Largest ISP:
**Update** – See a video tour
This thing looks like a secret lair! On a truly epic scale, above is a newly opened high security data center run by one of Sweden’s largest ISPs. It’s located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city and sealed off from the world by entrance doors 16 inches thick. Some data center’s have discovered how to turn those troublesome cables into something beautiful:
Data Center Cable Art:
As you can see, some data centers know how to properly organize their setups. The above are some of the best looking cable setups we’ve seen, but wait until you see the world’s worst cable messes.
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March 28th, 2010
Then, when you have to change some connections and mess up the wires, you cry
March 28th, 2010
New data center in Russia http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/telecom/83155/
March 29th, 2010
Nice pictures! The Russian data center is also awesome, btw.
March 29th, 2010
Cool! And how about this one? http://www.amadeus.com/media/erding_video.html
March 29th, 2010
Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s was built inside a chapel: http://www.bsc.es/media/360.jpg
March 29th, 2010
We banned all use of tie-wraps because it can damage the cables and put them out of spec when pulled to tight, so we switched to allowing only Velcro for cable bundling, with the added advantage that its much easier to change something.
March 31st, 2010
The cabling in these pictures is a bit misleading. Most of these are of structured cabling a the back of patch panels and are easy to keep like this as they are static (the ‘worlds worst’ link is all of patch cables, not structured cabling). I wonder if the front side looks anywhere near as good?
April 19th, 2010
@Gar: Agreed photo’s 3 & 4 at least (probably no 2 as well) are the back of the patch panel (i.e. structured cabling) but my sites are cabled exactly the same way as the 4th picture only there is a 48 port edge switch between every two panels. Then we use 0.3m leads to patch from the panel to the switch. In short the front looks even better than the back
i.e.
RU6 – 24 x port panel
RU5 – 48 x port switch
RU4 – 24 x port panel
RU3 – 24 x port panel
RU2 – 48 x port switch
RU1 – 24 x port panel
MC