These are the sort of crystal palaces that hold our data

Many multi million dollar datacentres store the ever growing stream of data from enterprises and consumers. These ´secret´ datacentres are sometimes hidden underground. Not however the new Equinix datacentre. At a cost of 145 million Euro the company built a futuristic glass multi-storey building in Slough, UK. Data from the International Business Exchange is stored here. Equinix realised similar buildings in New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Shanghai and Singapore. They run more than a 100 centres in 33 countries. It just goes to show that there is money to be made with our data.