Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Florida Town Builds Data Center In Water Tank

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 11, @11:58PM
from the zombie-proof-computing dept.
miller60 writes"The Florida town of Altamonte Springs has converted an old water storage tank into a new data center. The decommissioned tank previously held up to 770,000 gallons of water, but its 18-inch-thick walls provided a hurricane-proof home for the town's IT gear, which had to be relocated three times in 2004 to ride out major storms. The Altamonte Springs facility is the latest example of data centers in strange places, including chapels, shopping malls, cargo ships, old particle accelerators and caves."

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