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What the inside of a container data center looks like (pingdom.com)
17 points by breily on May 9, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


It seems like black would be a bad exterior color choice for heat purposes. Also, if I were to buy one of these, I would want it in a plain white container so as to not advertise that I have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computers inside of a highly mobile unit.


I'm sure that the stuff on Sun's website is just the "omg cool" marketing version; the real version probably has a less "awesome" color scheme. But you do bring up a good question... where do you store these containers? Do you just rent a warehouse and have them delivered?


You put them on a train that doesn't stop moving around the country to hide your whereabouts as you use your servers to facilitate your data-hungry conspiracy needs, of course.


http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/specifications.jsp

Nice big power outlet, and don't forget to hook it up to the water as well. I'm guessing it is water cooled.


Interesting. How do you power one of these things? And how is it ventilated?




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