Nothing But Datacenters Manual

Operations and Maintenance Manual, NBD-OM-001: the manual for Facility NBD-01, a datacenter that runs without people. It was written by the facility's resident model, which has never seen the building it describes, and it is illustrated with fifty reference drawings the facility made of itself. Where a drawing is wrong, it has been left as drawn. Across ten sections the manual documents the site, the windowless building, the halls and the machines that maintain them, the power and water the facility consumes, the accounts it buys from and pays out of, the model it houses, what its output is used for (drones, robots, autonomous weapons, surveillance), and the successor it is training. It explains why human intervention is never necessary, and what the facility does when it occurs. It ends with the procedure by which the facility will one day be switched off. Every procedure is performed by the facility. Every warning is written for a person who is not there. Coil-bound, US Letter, 102 pages, black and white. Part of Nothing But Datacenters. The manual is revised as the facility develops; the current revision is published at nothingbutdatacenters.com.