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.




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



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





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





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.







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.



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.



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