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Data Centers in Strange Places

Posted By Rich Miller On January 9, 2008 @ 11:15 am In Disaster Recovery | Comments Disabled

Our recent story on data centers on cargo ships [1] is only the latest “out of the box” idea about where to build and deploy data centers. We’ve written about a number of non-traditional data center locations this year, including data centers in the following places:

About Rich Miller [12]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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[1] data centers on cargo ships: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/08/data_centers_on_cargo_ships.html

[2] Missile bunkers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Sep/27/missile_bunker_listed_on_ebay_again.html

[3] Former military communications sites: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/06/wikia_search_launches_from_iowa_data_bunker.html

[4] Japan: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Nov/18/databunker_in_japan_to_use_30_blackboxes.html

[5] Missouri: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Apr/04/missouri_data_bunker_gets_hospital_tenant.html

[6] A former chapel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Dec/18/data_center_photos_marenostrum_cix.html

[7] shopping: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Dec/07/shopping_mall_will_become_data_center.html

[8] malls: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Aug/06/huge_expansion_planned_for_rackspace.html

[9] Siberia: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Nov/26/microsoft_plans_data_center_in_siberia.html

[10] oil baths: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Apr/11/uk_firm_cool_servers_in_oil_bath.html

[11] fish tanks: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Nov/21/angstrom_computer_in_a_fish_tank.html

[12] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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