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Well this one does- 'Data-Flow 11'. To hell with data centers. Just re-purpose rarely used roads to put the data centers on. This one is in Chicago in the Tenth Dimension!

 

See... I can think like Elon too!

They were putting in more servers.

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Last summer I went to an open house event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, known for its Wayback Machine to search the internet as it was in the past.

 

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, such as web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.

 

The Internet Archive purchased a discontinued church in San Francisco. Upstairs is the big hall, which used the be the main church hall. It now has two purposes: Event venue and datacenter. They have now 65 petabytes (65,000 GB) of disk storage, and add 2 petabytes disks per month. This shot shows one of the wings with disk humming arrays.

 

The Internet Archive is using our TWiki collaboration platform to coordinate work internally. Thank you for using TWiki!

 

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and increased the color saturation (no, you didn't!). This is a very rare exception, in this case it helped to make the image pop with the strong yellow and orange colors.

 

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8822_hdr1bal1g

Datacenter by Benthem Crouwel Architects (2012)

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.

Big Scary Laser

Do not look into beam with remaining eye

Google Data Center, Council Bluffs Iowa

 

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

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.

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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.

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)

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

Yükseltilmiş döşeme altı network kablolaması.

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

 

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..

  

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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.

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.

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