Many electrical distributors and reps have adopted data centers as an important core market for future growth, given the seemingly unquenchable appetite for data. A website that reviews data hosting services, WhoIsHostingThis.com, posted an interesting graphic that gives the details of some very interesting approaches to building a data center.
“These unusual data centers are not vanity projects, but creative responses to some of the challenges that technology has presented.”
Among the finds are datacenters in a retired ammunition depot, a datacenter that uses natural springs for cooling, ones that use the heat from servers to warm nearby buildings or generate power, and one in a chicken coop.