As Zippy notes, some data centers are now treated as terrorist targets. No phones allowed and laptop cameras covered by security stickers. Many of them also have WiFi and GSM blocking. Access must be notified, often days in advance, by an approved manager. Passport with full face and handprint scan required for entry every day. Single person airlock doors with weight detectors. Door sequencing with timeouts. And that's even if you are accompanied everywhere by an employee or security staff. Even to the loo.
The buildings will not have any external identification and I've seen one or two that had deliberately misleading signs outside. At one in St Helens I'd driven past it half a dozen times before I called my contact and asked him where the heck it was. Turned out that I was parked outside their front gate which had a different company's name on it.
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