Infographic: Nine most unusual data centers in the world –  take a graphic tour of data centers that are out of the ordinary because of siting (an abandoned nuclear bunker, a WWII anti-aircraft platform, inside a mountain), portability (using shipping containers), cooling methods (one uses the entire lower floor as a cooling plenum), green-ness (LEED Platinum with green roof, rainwater harvesting, etc.), and use of historic buildings (a former chapel, a former printing plant).

Links accompanying this post on TechRepublic have photos of some of them.  The infographic is from WhoisHostingThis.com.  For more on each of the featured data centers, try these links:

• Bahnhof – Pionen & Thule Gallery
• Elliptical Mobile Solutions – Micro-Modular Data Centers
• HavenCo – Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation
• HP’s Wynyard Data Center – Wynyard data center and 2+ min video
• Citigroup’s Data Center in Frankfurt – World’s First LEED Platinum Data Center Opens in Germany
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Photos and video gallery
• Lakeside Technology Center – World’s Largest Data Center: 350 E. Cermak
• eBay Project Mercury in Phoenix – eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency
• The Mountain Complex – About our facility