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A look inside the data centre

A short video tour of where the servers live, and what keeps them running when the power does not.

Ehsan Arab25 August 20261 min read
The cold aisle of a data centre

People rarely see the building their website runs in. Here is a short walk through ours.

Power, twice over

Every rack is fed from two independent paths. If one fails, nothing on the rack notices. Batteries carry the load for the seconds it takes the generators to come up.

Battery cabinets lined up along a wall
The interesting part of a data centre is not the servers. It is everything built so the servers never have a bad day.

Cooling works the same way: more capacity than needed, so a unit can be serviced without warming the room.

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