Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
Pretty interesting. I love how bespoke data centers are converging along very similar lines. I&#x27;m sure if you were inside a Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or Facebook data center you would recognize the new design touch points. The old data center is dead, long live the new data center.<p>This was the second big thing Google had learned early on: <i>&quot;The equipment is reduced to its basics so it runs cooler. It can also be easily accessed and repaired quickly.&quot;</i> -- slide 12&#x2F;17<p>The whole sheet metal box around a server was a real waste of time if your employees are the only ones accessing the area, and the only reason they want to touch the machine is to repair it. This in contrast to NetApp (where I had worked before) which was busily designing impressive cabinets that would &quot;stand tall&quot; on the raised flooring of the data center.