I have just returned from a visit to the Google Data Centre complex in Hamina, Finland. It is possibly the most secure installation I have ever (tried) to set foot in. There are so many layers of security involved it makes all the Data Centres that I have visited, worked in, or been associated with in the past an open shop.
The Hamina centre is the one that uses seawater cooling, dragged in from the Gulf of Finland to their proprietary cooling system. It is an interesting concept, bearing in mind that the salinity levels in that sea are remarkably low, the water being almost brackish, more than salty. I suggest that they get plenty of 'free cooling' too as the sea was completely frozen in during my trip with night-time temperatures of -28degC.
Still and all it was good to see what you can do with a couple of hundred million dollars.
I return to the UK to head up an interim Migration Team for a finance house but somehow I suspect that the facility will not be quite as 'cool'!
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