Data centers and retrofitting
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There is a building here in St. Louis that was retrofitted for a data center. I got to take a tour of it. I worked at the building as a summer intern back in the 90s so I knew about the building. The building has 4 floors but was designed originally so that it could have held 10 floors and the TV antenna tower for the NBC affiliate here in St. Louis. Before that it was owned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and held heavy huge printing machines on the fourth floor, as an example of how stout the building was. So structurally this thing was a beast. They were able to add what they needed and really made it into something.
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@ChrisL said in Data centers and retrofitting:
@Dashrender said in Data centers and retrofitting:
How do you propose getting a Level 3 or 4 DC from a retrofit?
Well, at least from a power redundancy standpoint, I'd assume most large malls or factories are already outfitted with backup systems, so it'd be easy to utilize or upgrade the existing stuff they got there. Physical security might be a different story.
If it used to be a mall, there are likely unemployed mall cops on the job market...
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@art_of_shred said in Data centers and retrofitting:
@ChrisL said in Data centers and retrofitting:
@Dashrender said in Data centers and retrofitting:
How do you propose getting a Level 3 or 4 DC from a retrofit?
Well, at least from a power redundancy standpoint, I'd assume most large malls or factories are already outfitted with backup systems, so it'd be easy to utilize or upgrade the existing stuff they got there. Physical security might be a different story.
If it used to be a mall, there are likely unemployed mall cops on the job market...
Put em on a treadmill to help reduce the electric bill?
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@PenguinWrangler said in Data centers and retrofitting:
There is a building here in St. Louis that was retrofitted for a data center. I got to take a tour of it. I worked at the building as a summer intern back in the 90s so I knew about the building. The building has 4 floors but was designed originally so that it could have held 10 floors and the TV antenna tower for the NBC affiliate here in St. Louis. Before that it was owned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and held heavy huge printing machines on the fourth floor, as an example of how stout the building was. So structurally this thing was a beast. They were able to add what they needed and really made it into something.
Are you talking about the Globe Building? There are multiple datacenter companies using the space on the 4th floor.
That is where my lab and basic production stuff is in colo right now.
http://www.globebuilding.com/data-center -
We have an old hospital that they converted the ER and emergency operating rooms into a data center. Redundant power feeds and generator were already on site so all they did was upgrade to latest code and add UPS system. The old ER ambulance entrance is now the shipping/staging area.
http://victorytechcenter.org/
My company is colocating some of our equipment in here come next month. -
@jt1001001 said in Data centers and retrofitting:
We have an old hospital that they converted the ER and emergency operating rooms into a data center. Redundant power feeds and generator were already on site so all they did was upgrade to latest code and add UPS system. The old ER ambulance entrance is now the shipping/staging area.
http://victorytechcenter.org/
My company is colocating some of our equipment in here come next month.We looked at Victory didn't go for it but it was a really cool datacenter.
