Extreme Datacentres

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  The Arctic Data Archive

  holds analog copies of the world's most important data
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  located on Norway's Svalberd Island

  in a remote bunker considered safe from natural disasters.
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  Located near the Global Seed Vault

  which is the world's largest collection of crop diversity
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  On the Svalbard Achipelago

  Remote, but with daily flights from Norway

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  A Public Research Centre

  known as the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
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  Sits in the former chapel Torre Girona

  in an enormous glass box
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  And Hosts the MareNostrum

  13.7 Petaflops of power, ranked 13th globally
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  Used for complex simulations

  such as genome research and weather forecasting

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  The Lockport Data Center

  designed and built by Yahoo!
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  is a 155,000 sq.ft facility in NY

  completed in 2015
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  Yahoo! has a patent on the design

  based around a real chicken coop
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  which uses 40% less energy and 95% less water

  than conventional facilities

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  Microsoft launched Project Natick

  as an experiment in 2015
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  to house a Datacentre under the ocean

  0.8km off the US Pacific Coast
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  Using a Watertight Cylindrical Vessel

  3x2m and weighing 17,237kg
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  It was Retrieved in Nov 2015

  with the data looking very promising

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  Code-Named Bumblehive and run by the NSA

  The US National Security Agency
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  It's a 1 Million Sq.Ft facility
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  Hosting a Tier III data centre

  with zettabytes and exabytes of storage!
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  To collect and store all Internet communications

  in order to protect the nation

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  So Cold at Negative 40 degrees..

  that's pretty extreme!
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  That they have to heat the air

  used to cool the data centre
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  With Over 1,200 computing cores

  and 3 petabytes of storage
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  It's used by the Ice Cube Observatory

  for detecting neutrinos 1km under the Antarctic ice

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  Located in Stavanger, Norway

  and owned by Smedvig
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  It's built into an old NATO hideaway

  shh.. don't tell anyone!
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  With a 21,500 square metre facility

  with huge mountain halls cooled by fjords
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  and the World's Lowest PUE

  (Power Usage Effectiveness) and a zero-carbon footprint