They were putting in more servers.

Climate Computing Facility - Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD

No longer do we collect and amass at scale. We infer...

Datacenter Equinix AM4.

Design (2017): Benthem Crouwel Architects.

In front: Amsterdamsebrug (1957).

Near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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

Google Data Center, Council Bluffs Iowa

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

How to do good IT systems cabling.

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.

A proof of concept installation has been set up in the atrium of RWE’s data centre (Grevenbroich, NRW) to demonstrate the power of Lemonbeat IoT technology. Sensors measuring sun intensity, temperature, wind and other atmospheric conditions, are able to communicate directly with the shades and blinds in the atrium, without needing to be linked via a central control unit. The result is optimal light and temperature at all times. Alongside the advantages of a more comfortable climate, energy savings are also made possible. -- In einer so genannten Proof-of-Concept Installation stellt die Lemonbeat IoT-Technologie ihr Können ab sofort im Atrium des RWE Rechenzentrums im nordrhein-westfälischen Grevenbroich unter Beweis. Ohne den Umweg über eine zentrale Steuereinheit kommunizieren Sensoren für Sonnenintensität, Temperatur, Wind und weitere Witterungseinflüsse direkt mit der Beschattungsanlage des Atriums. So herrschen im Innenbereich stets optimale Licht- und Temperaturverhältnisse. Neben Komfortgewinn bedeutet das vor allem auch die Einsparung von Energie. Photo/Chart: Manuel Adler, Lemonbeat GmbH

Denny Triangle, Seattle

Left: Doppler

Right: Westin Building Exchange

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.

Microsoft and the Software Defined Data Center0

@DataCenter

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).

Disks in an EMC VNX 5600 array

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.

Sealand's "datacenter". At a later point there were about 10 more machines and a couple ethernet switches, nothing more. Currently HavenCo's servers are colocated in London.