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Inside the 'James Bond Villain' Data Center
In an underground bunker 100 feet beneath Stockholm lies a unique facility operated by the Swedish ISP Bahnhof. It’s become known as the “James Bond Villain Data Center” after it was featured on the Pingdom web site last year. Dean Nelson of Data Center Pulse recently got a tour of the data center from Bahnhof CEO Jon Karlung, who provided a look at the many unusual features of the facility, a former military bunker designed to withstand a hydrogen bomb blast. Karlung has said he drew his inspiration for many of the center’s flourishes from James Bond villains (especially Ernst Blofeld), hence the waterfalls, greenhouse-style NOC, glass-enclosed conference room “floating” above the colocation floor, and blue-lit diesel engines (supposedly used in German submarines). This video runs about 9 minutes.
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About Rich Miller
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.
alh
Posted April 16th, 2009it is not Bahnof, nor Banhof, it is Bahnhof
Thanks! We’ve corrected the spelling of Bahnhof.
alh
Posted April 16th, 2009it is neither Bahnof nor Banhof, it is Bahnhof
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Posted April 16th, 2009Wow. That is definitely the best data center in the World. When I get my Computer Networking degree, I want to work there, preferably on one of the platforms connected by the rope bridge.
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Posted April 16th, 2009Why is the video dated April 20, 2009?
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Andrew
Posted April 16th, 2009Either those gennys are for show only, or they’re pretty sure about their power supply.
Any genny capable of generating enough power to run a datacenter is going to be NOISY – far too noisy to want to be anywhere close when they fire up. It would also need a far larger exhaust than can be seen in this video (not to mention air supply, too).
So cool it might be, but I’m not putting my servers there.
ville
Posted April 16th, 2009haha nice I have walked past that weird looking gate several times wondering what the hell it is
4fthawaiian
Posted April 16th, 2009The only thing lacking is a huge set of doors in the side of the mountain that open up for helipad access 
Do you expect me to talk?
No Mr Bond, I expect you to take co-location!
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Posted April 17th, 2009the partys in there were wild ;and; i’m sure co-locating there will be well worth the cost since it’ll be really highend considering they’ve bought themselves some serious access the last couple of years and they’re taking a stand when it comes to integrity – should be every pro-integritists firsthandchoice.
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Posted August 6th, 2010Awseomeness! I’d happily swap my regular datacenter job (big boring nondescipt white-tiled building) and emigrate to work here!
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