Nuke Site Converted Into Green Data Center 125
1sockchuck writes "If you had 100,000 servers, would you put them on top of a former nuclear fuel facility? One of the world's largest web hosts, 1&1 Internet, is building a new data center on a site in Hanau, Germany previously used by Siemens to produce mixed oxide rods made from enriched uranium and plutonium. The site has been cleaned up, and 1&1 is converting it into a 'green' data center powered by renewable energy and using free cooling to save on air conditioning costs."
sssss (Score:4, Funny)
Big deal. Call me when they can do the reverse ... (Score:5, Funny)
... and convert a Green Data Center into a Nuke Site.
THAT would be news.
Green Power! (Score:5, Funny)
When they said "Green Power", did they prefix it with "Glowing"?
Re:Cleaned up? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, only one way to find out. Grab your nuclear gear, we're going on vacation!
Does it come with a no-Stalagman warranty? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Green power (Score:4, Funny)
In the U.S., it means yellow power means 'powered by Mountain Dew'.
Re:So what? Why is this a front page story? (Score:5, Funny)
because we beat Digg to it!
Re:Cleaned up?-Unmanned. (Score:2, Funny)
Surely! The servers already glow green!
Central heating for sysadmins? (Score:3, Funny)
So no need for Ready Brek [wikipedia.org] to make the sysadmins "Get up and Glow"
Slashdot effect (Score:3, Funny)
... and convert a Green Data Center into a Nuke Site.
Well do you think a Data Center looks like, once simultaneously hit by slashdot and a bot net ?
This has been done before. Repeatedly.
Re:Cleaned up? (Score:5, Funny)
Oddly enough, TFA says nothing about the site being cleaned up.
This statement seems odd to me. How do you know this?
Re:Green power (Score:2, Funny)
In the U.S., it means yellow power means 'powered by Mountain Dew'.
So that's what they feed the hamsters on the wheels?
Re:sssss (Score:5, Funny)
There were reasons they moved their UK operations from Staines (Middlesex).
Re:sssss (Score:2, Funny)
Re:sssss (Score:3, Funny)
Gag on Siemens?