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Oh my.

That place looks brilliant.

And ripe for a Xenomorph.

That's a screenshot from Assassins Creed 3, where you run around Abstergo for a bit.

Interesting. I always thought high ceilings were hell on airflow and cooling.

I'm no physicist, but if you keep your tech close to the ground, the hot air will rise and be away from your gear. Then it can be extracted or whatev.

Big expanses of hot air are much harder to extract and vent though.

From the photos, it looks like they have plastic sheeting walls everywhere and blast cold air up through ducts in the floor into the sections that are walled off and need it. I expect there is a good reason why that, combined with a vast expanse of air above, is the best solution, but i'm too stupid to know why that would be the case.

Air is a surprisingly good insulator. The relevance of this to that is questionable, though.

So that's why it's taking so long to get rid of you.

Most modern DCs have cold air blown in through the floor. Well ours do.