Research Infrastructures
It is located in Bologna, at the Via Stalingrado - Via della Manifattura intersection, covers an area of over 120,000 square metres, which was designed and built in the 1950s by Pier Luigi Nervi for the then Manifattura Tabacchi, with innovative architectural solutions.
The Data Centre of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) stands on an area of 21,500 square metres and consists of both regenerated and new buildings. Two Data Halls of 1000 square metres each and two Data Storage facilities of 500 square metres each, housing IT equipment (supercomputers and data storage), are located inside reinforced concrete boxes, in their turn located inside the large pavilions by Nervi called “Botti”.
