Our Data Center, Minus the Data « Time Warner Cable Untangled

Oct 17 2012

Our Data Center, Minus the Data

We’re building a new data center in Charlotte, NC to process the phone, broadband, and video that makes up so much of our customer’s lives. I took a tour of it a few weeks ago, and took a bunch of photos that I’m slowly digging through.

While I have been working on that project, Google posted a really, really well-done series of photos and video that both show off their high-tech data center and work to humanize the people behind the machines. It’s a sleek, excellent triumph of PR and corporate communication, and I’d encourage you to check it out. And yes, I am totally jealous of this gallery/video combo:

Google Data Centers

Our facility looks very similar, with less colorful pipes. However, we’re still in the construction phase now. This photo is actually one of my favorites from the trip — it shows what WILL be a massive server room that processes high-speed data and video for every single one of our customers, but without the actual servers:

There’s something about that room that I just love. It feels like a post-apocalyptic underground lab. Or a Iron Man’s parking lot. Or a room that’s full of potential for high-tech innovation, a powerful and nearly invisible link in the chain that connects us all to one another in the present day.

Which it really is, if you think about it.

Categories: Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Customer Care, Digital Cable, Future of the Industry, What's New

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2 Responses to “Our Data Center, Minus the Data”

Richard
Oct 17, 2012
at 8:39 pm

Are you going for any LEED certifications for it?
Steve R
Oct 22, 2012
at 1:47 pm

This is a really smart business decision! Expand and sink huge amounts of money into a new data center, while your bottom of the barrel, worst in the industry, customer service continues to ensure you lose customers and market share!