Data Centers are the beating heart of all the online services we use every day.
They host the servers that allow you to have Cloud services, as well as dedicated servers for high performance and computing capacity, such as for Bitcoin Mining activities.
By minimizing their representation, they can be considered as very large server rooms (or data centers). It is not as simple as it may seem.
In fact, to maintain high standards, Data Centers require great ingenuity and innovation and are the result of engineering works for their construction, both structural and functional.

We have collected some curiosities about it:

1. The largest data center in the world it has an area of over 10,000,000 m².
   We are talking about the Chinese Inner Mongolia Information Park Data Center and its construction cost over 3 billion dollars.
   In Italy at the top of the ranking of the largest Data Centers is the Global Cloud Data Center in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo) with an area of 200,000 m². Incredible!
    
2. 360 degree security to keep your most precious asset safe: data.
   In addition to cyber security, physical security of the location is essential to minimize the risk of data loss.
   Sophisticated projects are studied and with a careful analysis of risk management. For example, fire-fighting systems with automatic door closers to immediately limit the affected area.
   Sophisticated systems are also put in place that are able to perceive movements using biometrics. A simple biometric system that we all know is the touch ID reader that many cell phones and devices use to scan fingerprints.
    
3. Some Data Centers are real works of art and building engineering. The continuous challenge between the construction of the Data Center and the climatic and environmental needs has led to increasingly avant-garde and even curious projects.
   To cite an example: various data center solutions are being tested underwater. A kind of infrastructure in the form of an airship is lowered deep into the sea. It may seem like a risky choice but it solves the cooling problems.
    
4. How many servers does a data center host? 
   Obviously, the data changes depending on the surface of the Data Center. On average, it goes from 5,000 servers in small Data Centers, up to a total of 40,000 servers managed overall in the Data Centers of a single provider.
    
5. Data centers are also an energy engineering challenge. This means finding alternative, suitable and efficient systems to keep cooling, air conditioning and room controls always at the maximum possible performance.
   Furthermore, the issue of green energy is also of importance, to minimize the environmental impact of Data Centers.
   An example is Apple's photovoltaic Data Center where the servers for the iCloud App reside, an Italian example is the Aruba Data Center in Bergamo which produces and exploits the hydroelectric energy of the Brembo River.