Data Center Porn

"This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain."

That got your inner geek revved up, didn't it? Click here for pictures and all the juicy details.

Then spend the weekend making up scenarios in which your CFO buys you one of your own.

One does not hear a lot about data-center aesthetics. This place got written up for its stonework. This cabinet-maker claims its product looks good while working well. Mostly, though, the focus is on efficiency and not design.

Back to the super-cool Swedish site:

"Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus," [Jon Karlung, CEO of the company behind the ISP] said. "Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans that are supposed to work with the stuff."