"Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array's (SKA's) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment inside does not leak radio waves that could harm the operation of the giant radio telescope. The SKA is an international project that is constructing 131,072 individual antennae with a combined area of around 1km 2,"
"Work on the project started in 2022, and according to Professor Philip Diamond, director of the SKA Observatory, the project team has already installed 12,100 antennae and completed most of the work to install power cables and optic fibers. Speaking to The Register from the International Aeronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Diamond said work on a datacenter located in Murchison, the remote location of the Australian part of the SKA, is also almost complete."
"Diamond said the datacenter houses around 100 racks, mostly vanilla servers that use FPGAs programmed to filter the many terabytes of data the SKA will collect every day so that only valuable info is sent over the 10TB/s capable optic fibre link that connects the facility to supercomputers in the city of Perth. The SKA's designers chose Murchison because it is remote and almost devoid of human activity - and therefore also a radio-quiet location."
Work on the datacenter at the SKA site in Murchison, Western Australia is nearly complete and includes two Faraday cages to prevent equipment from leaking radio waves. The SKA will comprise 131,072 antennae covering about one square kilometre. So far 12,100 antennae are installed and most power cables and optic fibers are in place. The datacenter contains about 100 racks of mostly standard servers using FPGAs to filter many terabytes of daily data so only valuable information is sent over the 10TB/s optic fibre link to supercomputers in Perth. Murchison was chosen for its remote, radio-quiet environment; entrances use airlock-style shielding to minimise RF escape.
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