Emailing "World's Highest Density Data Center (with video)"
Phew, that's an over the top [video](http://www.switchnap.com/pages/products/the-supernap-video/the-supernap.php) complete with music from Strauss' [Zarathustra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss), more popularly known as the theme to the movie 2001. (H/T The Register)
It's a long story, but the short of it is:
It will be built near Las Vegas by real estate magnates who want to build a data center alley in the desert, powered by Hoover Dam (and, in the future, perhaps solar energy too?).
The numbers:
- 407,000 square feet of space
- Designed for 1,500 watts per square foot (does that mean it will consume 407,000 feet x 1,500 watts per foot = 610,500 watts? Don't know.)
- 30,000 tons of equipment (including cooling)
- over 7,000 cabinets
- armed security
- opening in 2008
Quite a story! The video doesn't tell you much. The Register's story is [here](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/24/switch_supernap/).