Update: As of Dec. 2, 2010, Bahnhof was serving as one of the European hosts for the Wikileaks web site, which is no longer using the Amazon Web Services cloud to distribute its files. See Netcraft [1] for details.
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 [2] last year. Dean Nelson of
Data Center Pulse [3] 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.
See
Data Center Pulse [4] for more about the group. For additional video, visit our
DCK video archive [5] and the
Data Center Videos [6]channel on YouTube.
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] Netcraft: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/12/02/wikileaks-ousted-by-amazon-moves-to-europe.html
[2] Pingdom web site: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/
[3] Data Center Pulse: http://www.datacenterpulse.com
[4] Data Center Pulse: http://www.datacenterpulse.com/
[5] DCK video archive: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/data_center_videos-index.html
[6] Data Center Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos
[7] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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