Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)





Near Stockholm in the depths of underground rock is a server center, which looks much smarter than can depict any Hollywood movie.

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)


Company Bahnhof - one of Sweden's largest Internet service providers, has created this high-tech center in a former nuclear bunker.

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

Bunker called Pionen and after entry into the spectator open pictures that are simply breathtaking waterfalls, underground gardens

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

For emergency power supply are two diesel engines Maybach MTU, which produce 1, 5 MW of electricity and originally designed for submarines.

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

The cooling system of the data center system is presented Baltimore Aircoil, the cooling effect is equal to 1, 5 MW, which is enough to cool a few hundred server modules. And between the servers and the surface stretched as fiber optic cables and copper.

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

It should be added that the bunker was designed taking into account in order to withstand a direct hit by a thermonuclear bomb. Originally Pionen was built during the Cold War as a shelter in case of nuclear war. It is located at 30 meter layer of rock and was significantly redesigned in 2007 - 2008.

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)

And now it is located in a data center Network Operations Center (NOC) company Bahnhof, which provides power for all your company's operations. Just a 5 bin server rooms and the largest of them manage 15 people.

Data center in a nuclear bunker (11 photos)