It's Jane Street's only datacenter. not the only one in NYC. As they explain, they chose to specially locate their datacenter.
replyYeah I didn't read the article in detail. It's the NYC that threw me off. And I didn't feel like it was that weird an concept, after all the real estate in NYC is super premium priced, not exactly prime datacenter country. I'm surprised there are many (like I said 33 Thomas St used to be just a phone exchange which used to be much bigger than they are now due to the mechanical tech involved).
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replyThe headline is confusing. It’s Jane Street’s only data center in NYC, not NYC’s only data center.
reply> The headline is confusing.
replyNitpick, but the headline is not confusing at all, even though a couple of people are apparently confused. I suspect that is the fault of a hasty read through, not the headline itself.
Despite overall literacy increasing, reading comprehension has been falling for about a decade now.
replyThis was pre-Hurricane Sandy, so before 2012. I'm guessing data centers have grown since then
replyJane Street’s only NYC data center. Not the only data center in general.
replyWork nearby, it looks just as evil in person.
replyI think it looks cool. I used to work in buildings like this a lot. They're kinda cool. Dark, humming and clicking etc. I worked in telephony at a time when some (not many) of the old mechanical switches were still around and those buildings were especially spooky. It sounded like you were in the middle of a wild storm of crickets around 7pm when people finished dinner and started calling their friends. And all the little lights flashing all over (sometimes I used to keep the lights off for the cool effect if I could)
replySome of them have half-floors for all the cable routing, where you can't really stand up.
I think this is why I like them. To me they're not just an ugly box but I always wonder what's inside.