Photos: Five unusual data centres

Data centres are big business, and as well as the usual anonymous buildings on the edge of town silicon.com has visited some more unusual locations as the industry develops new ways of coping with demand.

For example, managed services provider Centrinet has what it claims is the UK's first data centre with zero carbon emissions.

The data centre was built 100 metres underground in a former RAF radar station in the Lincolnshire countryside. Pictured is the view down into the so-called Smartbunker.

The zero-carbon claim refers to energy - all the power the data centre uses comes from UK-based wind farms. Click to see the more of the zero-carbon subterranean centre.

Photo credit: Gemma Simpson