As Internet surges, data centers gear up

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — At Equinix’s SV5 data center here, it’s easy to feel like you’ve entered the Matrix.

Once you get past the security guards, the biometric reader and the man trap double entryway, you find yourself in a massive, windowless room bigger than a football field. It’s dark. Dim, blue lighting reveals long corridors lined with locked cages. Inside the cages are racks filled with computer hardware — servers and routers — their LED lights blinking hypnotically.

Overhead, above the corridors, are yellow plastic trays carrying multicolored fiber optic cable. Cooling air blasts from the 30-foot ceiling. The computer equipment and cooling system combine to create an unearthly high-decibel hum.

Source: www.usatoday.com

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