Jul 6, 2012 3:07 PM

Gallery: Drones, Caves, and Toilets: When Data Centers Go Rogue

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*AOL has dropped its "Micro Data Center" into a field behind its Virginia headquarters. But the online outfit wants to put the thing ... everywhere. Image: AOL*
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*eBay cooks its data center modules in the Arizona sun. Image: Green Grid*

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*London's Interxion has built sleeping pods into a data center that will help drive the Olympics. Keeping a data center going is a fulltime job -- especially when the Games arrive. Photo: Interxion*
roger schederin
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*Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks is hosted in a Bahnhof data center deep inside a bunker carved into the White Mountains of Sweden. Image: Bahnhof*

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*Leafdal Mine claims it's one of the world's most efficient datacenters. (Image: Lefdal/YouTube Screengrab)*
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*To build its data center on the southern coast of Finland, Google reincarnated a dead paper mill. Image: Google*

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*In Georgia, Google cools its data center with recycled toilet water. (Image: epSos.de/Flickr)*
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*Google owns a patent on a kind of data-center navy. Image: Google Patent US7525207*

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*Blueseed – one of Peter Thiel's myriad investments – envisions a floating IT fortress immune from U.S. immigration law. Image: Blueseed*
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*Rogue file-sharing site The Pirate Bay plans to put its servers on flying drones so that law enforcement can't shut them down without shooting them down. (Image: Ars Electronica/Flickr)*

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*Server Sky wants to put a data center in spaaaaace! Image: id-iom/Flickr*

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