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Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 05 Dec 2008 17:01 GMT

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A hundred feet under the centre of Stockholm, a few favoured IT staff work in what could be the world's most futuristic datacentre.

The underground facility, with tropical plants, a waterfall and craggy granite walls, has been built in a former bunker designed to survive a near miss by a nuclear bomb. It would suit a supervillain, but is in fact a co-location facility for Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof, and was deliberately designed to look like a Ken Adams film set for a James Bond movie.

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