I just visited a data center for the first time in my life.

I'm in love 😍

I never was in one,how is it?

@plusgut Very fucking loud and very hot (except for in the cooled spaces) but fucking awesome!

@linuxxx :D cool

How many rows were there?

"So. This is another area in which we will install your box. Let me show you a different area in which your box will be installed"

@stop Didn't count haha!

I got to visit the data center at the local University once. It was fascinating!

lesser than 30 standardracks(usually 3 x 10) is small

@stop I only visited the part where we had to be which was about 5 steps away from the entrance 😅

Then it was only the showroom.

@stop Oh nope it was deffo live/real but idk I didn't go in far 😞😥

Congrats
Been to few DC's in my life. Can't say it was a very enjoyable experience.
Very cold, very loud and I feel the cancerous radiation all over me.

Pics or it didn't happen

I freaking love our DC here. It's a weird things to love, but it relaxes me lol

Did you catch a glimpse at cable porn?

Did you have a lift? Last one I went didn't have one.

Tip: don't ever move an entire rack of blade servers to a new DC with no lift. Servers aren't made with being carried up stairs in mind...

@QueenMorgana I love to cool down there 😃

@SpencerBeige Silicon Valley?

@SpencerBeige Silicon Valley reference. I like it 😋

I was able to go to a data center at an internship once and it was pretty awesome! I like how it's either really hot or really cold

We don't support bragging here. 😉

I did some work in data centres this year and had to take mints my mouth got so dry from being in air conditioned rooms all day 😂

What did they know abt me?

I've been in one where ebay had it's own department. And the data center staff was not allowed to access that department. It had an iris scan + badge scan that opened the first door to a sas where the first door would close and check if only one person was in that sas.

@clovisIrex Ditto. I live in Phoenix and even in summer when it's 120 I'd be wearing a sweatshirt to go to work. You get some weird looks but is frigid on the DC floor.

We had something like 5-8000 servers, and capacity for maybe 10000 more, and the cooling was clearly designed for full capacity. Lol

@SpencerBeigelol@SpencerBeige
That Silicon Valley reference

Omg ! I'm so jealous ! I've wanted to visit one for years !!! On top of that, there's a Google datacenter in Belgium not far away from my house but I never had a chance to visit it 😢