Data centre of the month
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Just outside of the city of Bologna at the foot of the Apennine Mountains lies a juggernaut of a computing system capable of performing 250 petaFLOPS, that’s 250 quadrillion calculations per second. -
The story of how a tragedy in an ammunition storage depot indirectly led to the creation of a sustainable, naturally cooled data centre in a completely different city 60 years later.
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For the next Data Centre of the Month, Capacity looks at Datacenter Mutualisé Lorrain (DCML), a shared data centre built for a hospital, a university, and a regional government – and a successful example of ‘micro-colocation’.
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For the second Data Centre of the Month, we head north to Iceland – and north again from Reykjavik to Akureyri, where atNorth opened its 12MW ICE03 facility in 2023.
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For the first Data Centre of the Month in 2024, we profile a data centre that is pioneering in its scale and its design – the GAK Sejong facility in South Korea, built by the country’s leading hyperscale operator Naver.
