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I went to a meetup in San Francisco a few weeks back and found this beautiful stained glass ceiling. Do you know, or can you guess where this is? The title gives a hint.

I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW long exposure, then merged the two images.

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8756_hdr1bal1pai1d

UPDATE 2015-12-26: I took this shot when I went to an open house event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. They purchased an old church and converted it into a workplace and datacenter. Quite unique. This is the glass ceiling of the main hall upstairs. The same hall also serves as a datacenter.

They were putting in more servers.

Datacenter Equinix AM4.

Design (2017): Benthem Crouwel Architects.

In front: Amsterdamsebrug (1957).

Near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Antel Datacenter, Light street

It's actually a shipping container packed with computers and about 5 petabytes of storage. The Bing Map team processes its maps and redestributes them to other datacenters using this datacenter.

A chiller failed, leading to a high ambient temperature, leading to 5 other chillers failing. This is what happens next.

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Big Scary Laser

Do not look into beam with remaining eye

How to do good IT systems cabling.

Google Data Center, Council Bluffs Iowa

"Council Bluffs" Drone "Google Data Center" Iowa "United States of America" WC

A multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet. More here: www.elasticspace.com/2014/05/internet-machine

The Weight of the Cloud

Description

A cinematic documentary-style visual series exploring the hidden physical world behind digital infrastructure. Across storm-darkened rural landscapes, muddy construction sites, substations, server halls, delivery routes, public meetings, and community spaces, the images portray the tension between technological progress and the human, environmental, and territorial realities that support it.

The collection contrasts the clean precision of data centers, power grids, pipelines, and industrial architecture with the rough emotional texture of workers, landowners, engineers, citizens, and younger generations facing a future shaped by energy demand and digital expansion. Dramatic skies, wet roads, heavy machinery, orange safety clothing, reflective surfaces, and muted industrial tones create a realistic atmosphere of uncertainty, scale, and transformation.

This is a visual essay about the cloud becoming visible: not as something weightless, but as concrete, steel, electricity, land, labor, logistics, and public debate.

The images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.

If you would like to license this image for commercial use, contact me (see my profile).

Denny Triangle, Seattle

Left: Doppler

Right: Westin Building Exchange

blogpost:

geektechnique.org/blog/845/maintentance-and-a-megalomania...

Modern network and telecommunication technology computer concept: server room in datacenter

Some of our boxes are in there.

Here we see Linn setting up Brendan's new firewall. Man, a datacenter is a funky place: many long rows of humming cabinets containing hundreds and hundreds of servers. Yes folks, THIS is the Internet.

Design Benthem Crouwel architects.

Client is Equinix. You find it on the Science Park.

@DataCenter

Datacenter up at the ol' 9-5. 9 vertical photos stitched together in Autodesk Stitcher.

The 800 square meters data center room seen from the south. In the foreground a new XIV IBM Gen3. At the bottom there is a 1.85 m tall person. (Gli 800mq della sala del data center visti da sud. In primo piano un nuovo XIV IBM Gen3. In fondo uno dei nostri tecnici alto, 1,85 mt)

Yükseltilmiş döşeme altı network kablolaması.

Japan's Internet backbone. This is the largest data center in the world (or so they claim).

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From 3 exposures [+2, 0, -2]. Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro.

| Canon 450D XSi | 18-55mm@18mm | ƒ/3.5 | 1/6s, 1/25s, 1/100s | ISO 400 | Tripod.

Pocas cosas odio más que los cables: tienen más habilidad para enredarse que el guión de una novela venezolana. Por suerte en mi trabajo se tomaron el asunto en serio.

| There are very few things I hate more than cables. Fortunately in my workplace we took this matter seriously.

These are the connections between the switches and patch panels *after* they were cleaned up considerably.. It doesn't look too much different today (3.5 yrs later.. ) but most of the connections are defunct as our production systems have moved to a real data center.

using a bit more power though..

View more datacenter images in my set

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More photos and stories on my site -> not4rthur.photo

One of the funniest spots on the real estate tour was a place with zero air conditioning, cubes stacked tight, and this joyus reminder of Joi's first closet server room. The guy said there was a certain temptation while working on things (notice the angle of the monitor).

Datacenterdan genel bir görüntü.

from days past

Storage devices in a datacenter or colocation facility.

Datacenter'dan NOC'a bakış

(built 2012, see tags for further known data). Op dit werk is een Creative Commons Licentie van toepassing.