Textured ceilings probably help hide things, but why the lines?
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You can open or replace this fake ceiling square by square as behind it you may find some electrical stuff that sometimes needs to be repaired. It’s also probably cheaper.
It’s kind of the same as the floor in data centers. If you’ve been in one, the floor is a fake floor made of square sort of plastic tiles. Below that you have the cold air that goes into the servers, AC and DC power, fire and water detectors, cables road etc. You need an easy access to those fake floors or ceiling for maintenance.
Have also seen grated floors for the same reason. Like a fence that you walk on, so you can actually see the cable management below
The grates allow cool air to be forced up in front of racks. Unless your company cheaped out on datacenter construction, picked a room too small, didn't leave room for the ramp to get up to proper height without breaking code on the incline, and had to rig a half-height raised floor that barely left room for electric, let alone proper air flow, so there had to be a huge air handler on top of the unit to blow cold air in the wrong places. And then bought a generator that wasn't beefy enough to cover the AC, so every time the power went out it's a mad scramble to put rolling units in place to keep the room at ~90F.
And all of the brass thought themselves geniuses for saving a few dollars.
Ya know, I bet there was some stupid financial decisions that went into it. I just thought it was cool that we could see the cable management cause it was done pretty well lmao
I wasn't there long enough to bother looking that deep into that kind of thing, but I'll probably think about it the next time I see some dumb shit like that lol
this is far too specific to be a hypothetical.
you sound like a Vietnam war vet recounting their tour.
thank you for your service!