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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

how did you get to be in there?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

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.