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Data Facility

Carrier-neutral colocation in a working hay barn. Tier 4½. Cooled by weather. Guarded by geese.

Est. 1974 as a barn · Est. 2009 as a datacenter · Nobody told the barn

• RACK 3 — goat present, non-blocking • FIBER PAIR B — severed by plow (3rd occurrence, same plow) • COOLING — big door open, prevailing wind NNW • POWER — grid nominal, windmill contributing • SECURITY — Beverly patrolling north perimeter • SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE — haying, weather permitting • CORE SWITCH — barn swallows nesting in cable tray, left alone •

Live Facility Status

Barn 1 — Rack Elevation Ambient: 61°F · Humidity: barn · Wind: 8mph NNW
U01–U08Core routing & transit. Two upstreams, one of them a neighbour.Operational
U09–U13Customer colocation. Half-height cabinets, full-height commitment.Operational
U14–U22Currently occupied by a goat. Has been for some time. Cabinet is warm and she knows it.Occupied
U23–U30Storage array. Sits on a pallet because the floor is not level and never will be.Operational
U31–U36Backup generator control. Starts on the second try, every time, reliably.Degraded
U37–U42Reserved for expansion pending removal of approximately forty years of hay.Hay

Facility Specification

Power

Utility grid, a diesel genset, and one windmill that predates the internet and does not care about it. Transfer is automatic in the sense that someone walks out there.

N+1 · where N is variable

Cooling

Passive ambient. We open the big door. In August we open the other big door as well. Thermal modelling performed annually by standing inside and saying "yeah, that's fine."

Free cooling · 100% of the time

🌐Connectivity

Two diverse fiber paths. Path A follows the county road. Path B was buried across the south field and has now been located by the plow on three separate occasions.

Diverse · technically

🛡Physical Security

Perimeter is monitored continuously by Beverly, a goose of exceptional commitment. Secondary response provided by Dale. Access requires appointment and nerve.

24/7 · unpaid · unrelenting

🔥Fire Suppression

Clean-agent system in the core aisle. Beyond the core aisle, there is a pond. The pond has never been tested under load and we intend to keep it that way.

Inergen · and a pond

📦Remote Hands

Available dawn to dusk, and after dusk if it sounds serious. Response time is excellent unless it is calving season, in which case you are a lower priority than a cow.

15 min · seasonally adjusted

By The Numbers

99.4%Uptime, excl. harvest
3Plow incidents
1Goat in rack 3
Tier, roughly

Compliance & Certification

ISO 9001 — ish SOC 2 — pending, always USDA ORGANIC PCI-DSS — we asked CERTIFIED GRASS-FED HIPAA — the barn is discreet COUNTY FAIR, 2ND PLACE

Service Level Agreement

Enquiries

Come to the gate.

We do not publish an address. The last one we published received four thousand offers of search engine optimisation and nothing else. Beverly will announce you long before anyone would have read an email anyway.