Internet is all about routing data and you’ve already seen the big numbers, like 100 million users here or there, or a 600 million dollar building that no one will see the inside, but where does the data go after those big network pipes? Companies hold and deliver undescriptible amounts of data that need to be able accessible fast or else the client goes instead of the data.

The data is stored in data centers (sometimes called server rooms), which are massive structures of computers (or something close) and are located in controlled areas, both securely and ambient. How do they look like? We’ll, i made a little selection of photos for your viewing pleasure.

A simple and cheap datacenter would look this:

(Micro concepts of Chesterfield Web Services photos)

Just throw some computers and network them and you have a data center. Heck, you can have one in your own room:

(Rob Krten’s server room)

A more professional data center might look like this:

(eLINC Gallery)

How about more professional than that?

(Mavweb datacenter photos)

Even even more professional?

(Myuvhost photos)

Servers named ‘deathstar’! How cool is that? They are obviously from Lucasarts!

(Lucasarts ILM servers)

Now, having the word ‘center’ of datacenter in bold:

(SGI LRZ something)

For the sake of curiosity, here are some photos of constructing a datacenter:

(Berkeley’s servers)

Very pretty, but how about going mobile?

(APC’s Infrastruxure Express On-demand mobile datacenter)

Rackable Systems has one too, though uglier outside but prettier inside:

(more photos)

If you have more interesting photos please add the links in the comments. Visit my site http://www.filipefreitas.net for more interesting news.

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