Our Mom-and-Pop Data Center
For more than five generations, Hillsbrook Servers has prided itself on being a family-owned and -operated data center. Situated on a parcel of what was once bright-green Iowa pasture, our supercomputing facility may not look like much. But, when push comes to shove, we route data that’s honest, sustainable, and community-driven. You haven’t experienced data like Hillsbrook data.
From Dairy to Data
Our journey began in the late twenty-twenties, with the family patriarch, Joseph Glunt, who grew up milking cows (and podcasting) on this very land. But as Zillennials abandoned dairy in favor of alternative milks, like oat and bodega cat, young Joseph knew he had to reinvent the family business. In 2028, heeding the advice of an ad he saw on Instagram, Joseph traded in his family’s cows for his first server rack. That’s when Hillsbrook Servers was born.
At a time when I.T. infrastructure was dominated by megacorporations exploiting the global supply chain, Hillsbrook had a vision for a new type of data: small-batch, handcrafted, and hyperlocal. From copper and silicon to neodymium and dysprosium, we harvest our minerals and rare-earth metals the old-fashioned way. If it’s in a semiconductor, we source it directly from our own front yard—with a shovel, a respirator mask, and an ice-cold pitcher of lemonade—just as Joseph and his daughters did more than a century ago. That’s a Hillsbrook promise.
The Hillsbrook Difference
We believe it takes a village to run a colocation facility. On a typical day, you might find Cousin Jasper out back rebooting some automatic transfer switches, or Uncle Perry wheeling in a new power-distribution unit. Little Betsy, the artist of the family, paints all of our red, green, and blue electrical wires by hand. When cables overheat, it’s up to Mee-maw to fetch buckets of water from the well. Heck, even our beloved pup, Dale, barks whenever a squirrel’s hiding in the networking hardware!
Folks in town should feel comforted knowing that their shopping habits, banking details, medical records, retinal gaze tracking, private browsing history, neural-implant transmissions, smart-fridge contents, toilet analytics, and work e-mails are hosted in perpetuity by a family that cares. At Hillsbrook Servers, your data is more than just ones and zeros; it’s nonbinary, like your great-grandparents used to be back in the twenty-twenties.
F.A.Q.s
Now, you might be wondering a few things. How do we deal with cybersecurity? Is it fair for local communities to have to subsidize our electric bill when the economic benefits are unevenly distributed? Should we be allowed to consume ninety-nine per cent of the town’s water? Well, if we had our druthers, we wouldn’t concern ourselves with those “big-city politics.” Our only focus is on powering more A.I., more innovation, and more family values in every byte.
At Hillsbrook, we’re not tech bros. We’re tech brothers, tech sisters, tech mothers and fathers. We’re Small Tech. Moving slow and fixing things. Relaying data on the information super country road. So, the next time you’re scrolling in your V.R. contact lenses, you can feel good knowing that your feed may have come from a data center that’s rooted in tradition. Humming with electricity . . . and pride. And it looks like a barn.
—From our family to yours,
Hillsbrook Servers*
*An Amazon-Nvidia-Disney-ExxonMobil-Monsanto company. ♦