On 23 February 2024, a brand-new data centre was inaugurated on CERN’s Prévessin site (France), marking the completion of a major project for the Organization’s computing strategy. Spanning more than 6000 square metres and including six rooms for IT equipment with a cooling capacity of 2 MW each, the centre will host CPU (central processing unit) servers for physics data processing as well as a small amount of CPU servers and storage capacity for business continuity and disaster recovery (for example, when data is corrupted). CERN’s main data centre on the Meyrin site (Switzerland) will continue to house the majority of the Organization’s data storage capacity.
CERN launches new data centre
