I’ve been to a datacenter that had part of Wikipedia in it in Dulles, VA. It’s definitely not a basement, it’s one of the coolest places I’ve ever been.
The company I worked for was decommissioning a server rack and they needed some warm bodies to unhook cables, so they let some non-sysadmins go in to help out. Security was super tight, but once you got in there it was a nerd’s wet dream: Whiteboards everywhere, weird foreign snacks and energy drinks, dim lighting with sick red neon trim.
I also got to keep all the Ethernet cables I wanted which was pretty sweet.
I’ve been to a datacenter that had part of Wikipedia in it in Dulles, VA. It’s definitely not a basement, it’s one of the coolest places I’ve ever been.
how did you get to be in there?
The company I worked for was decommissioning a server rack and they needed some warm bodies to unhook cables, so they let some non-sysadmins go in to help out. Security was super tight, but once you got in there it was a nerd’s wet dream: Whiteboards everywhere, weird foreign snacks and energy drinks, dim lighting with sick red neon trim.
I also got to keep all the Ethernet cables I wanted which was pretty sweet.