Data centre reveals it modeled interiors on The Hunt for Red October sets
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/07/data_centre_looks_like_hunt_for_red_october_set/
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Slattery founded Australian data centre concern NEXTDC and yesterday [1]took to LinkedIn with news that when he briefed architects for the [2]M1 bit barn in Melbourne : “I had a clear instruction to the architects. It was to make them look like the plant rooms of ‘The Red October’.”
“I said in the movie The Hunt for Red October when Connery said 'Ryan, be careful – things don't react too well to bullets?' and then Ryan peeks around the corner and sees the reactor? Well, I want it to look like the reactor room from the Red October.”
And here’s how the fictional sub and the M1 data centre look...
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"Top image: A still from The Hunt For Red October. Bottom image: NEXTDC's M1 bit barn in Melbourne, Australia. Click to enlarge
“I think they nailed it,” Slattery wrote, calling out the red walls, marine lights and large lettering as bringing the set design into the data centre.
Here's the relevant clip from the film to let you make your own judgement. We could point out it appears the scene takes place among banks of missiles rather than in a reactor room, but we wouldn't want to be a buzzkill or anything.
[4]Youtube Video
Slattery’s businesses include NEXTDC, submarine cable outfit PIPE networks, cloud connectivity business Megaport and a new business he teased today and suggested could be “bigger than cloud”. ®
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[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/bevanslattery/detail/recent-activity/
[2] https://www.nextdc.com/data-centres/m1-melbourne-data-centre
[3] https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/05/07/nextdc_red_october.jpg
[4] https://youtu.be/W3L5tWudRCs
[5] https://go.theregister.co.uk/tl/1936/-8578/how-to-build-your-digital-experience-portfolio?td=wptl1936
They got it WRONG
That shot from The Hunt for Red October is *not* in the reactor room, those tubes are the exterior surfaces of the launch tubes for the intercontinental nuclear missiles that the submarine, as a "boomer"-type, holds. That area is nicknamed the "Forest" by submariners, as the tubes tower over you like giant trees.
https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2013/06/submarine-slang.html
You can't come close to a nuclear reactor in a warship, they are not only contained in compartments that are sealed from 'normal' entry during operations, the reactor is so heavily shielded that they just resemble massive 'lumps' that take up a huge amount of space. For example
https://webzoom.freewebs.com/henry0077/chuckj7.jpg
from
https://www.usscasimirpulaski.com/upperlevel.htm
On a submarine, only the Forest has the wide open spaces that are displayed in the scene from Red October .
Fun!
I really like the "Red October" setting based appearance. Imagine how much fun that was for the architect and crew involved to build this!
Ours is all standard components, we are not allowed such niceties (I understand and appreciate the reasons, especially under the current situation). However, it looks a bit like the death star. The head BOFH hates beige computer boxes, so everything is black. Our main vendor (don't ask me, I was in there once for a tour and a few pints afterwards) has really nice doors for their racks. Everything black, shiny, grates, glass, and the ubiquitious blinking lights...