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Globe Building (St. Louis)
The Globe Building is an Art Deco style office and data center building in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Before that it housed the ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat'' newspaper and was originally built for the Illinois Terminal Railroad. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Globe Building was originally a freight and passenger terminal for the Illinois Terminal Railroad. The railroad commissioned the prominent St. Louis architectural firm Mauran, Russell and Crowell to design the building. During World War II the building housed offices of the predecessor to the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), which referenced it as their US Aeronautical Chart Plant, St. Louis. The building would later go on to house geographic data and information firms, including geospatial intelligence Private intelligence agency, offices, which complement the nearby National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Campus West (NCW). The construction of a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Data Center
A data center (American English) or data centre (British English)See spelling differences. is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Since IT operations are crucial for business continuity, it generally includes redundant or backup components and infrastructure for power supply, data communication connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression), and various security devices. A large data center is an industrial-scale operation using as much electricity as a small town. History Data centers have their roots in the huge computer rooms of the 1940s, typified by ENIAC, one of the earliest examples of a data center.Old large computer rooms that housed machines like the U.S. Army's ENIAC, which were developed pre-1960 (1945), were now referred to as "data centers". Early computer systems, complex to operate and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
