CERN Accelerating science

Find out about the new modular data centre that's being built for the upgraded LHCb detector. This facility will house the detector's readout system, which is connected to front-end electronics in the underground cavern via 19 000 optical fibres, and the 2000 or so servers of the "high-level trigger" farm that processes and filters the data coming out of the detector. The data centre uses an indirect free air-cooling system, which has an electric power consumption corresponding to less than 10% of the electric power needed to operate the IT equipment.