Server Room 188 | Quiet Cy-Fi: Ambience

Second video of the 'Quiet Cy-Fi' ('cyber fiction') project, a series of audio ambiences, flavoured with a cyber\tech\futuristic atmosphere.
Calm, lulling, introspective, immersive, a bit mysterious perhaps.
In this ambience, you sit at the main terminal of a server room in the futuristic basement floor of a data-center, with no one around except you and the (very, very) droning machines. You dig in the endless mole of information flowing in the flashing nano-circuits.
Features:
► the magnificent artwork is courtesy of NEIL GOWLAND [www.grimmsorg.com/] (the animation effects are added by me). Thank you so much Mr. Gowland;
► server drone [many thanks to jerome_moinet from freesound.org/people/jerome_mo...];
► several types of fans\conditioning drones [many thanks to LG from freesound.org/browse/tags/air-... ];
► a huge multitude of electric and electronic sounds, beeps and clicks [many thanks to luiiiiiiii from freesound.org/people/luiiiiiii... , Tomlija from freesound.org/people/Tomlija/s... , harri from freesound.org/people/harri/sou...];
► radio scanner;
You can also hear a nice and cyber-y music clip by ERH from freesound.org/people/ERH/sound...
IMPORTANT: the Creative Common licence covers the sounds but NOT the artwork, which is property of Neil Gowland.
As always, I suggest you download the full VBR MP3 [101.1 Mb] -- mega.nz/#!9V8DiKLZ!WRo-fETNF_... -- (download usually works better with Google Chrome)
Binaural & Loopable
If you want to loop this video directly on your browser, go here: www.listenonrepeat.com/watch?...
One final note:
I, personally, find this kind of stuff immensely helpful for any kind of concentrated (studying, working etc.) and/or relaxed state of mind. I also find it particularly good for immersion (writing, rpg etc.).
Of course it is a personal preference of mine, and I have created this ambience primarly for myself, but I really wished to share it in case there could be other people benefiting from this project.
Hope you enjoy (:

[@ked4]

My dad took me to work with him a few times when he was a flight simulator tech at NASA, and the big computer room sounded just like this.

[@i.d3798]

How to hack nasa

[@SlurryNoises]

dang, lucky!!

[@cypher_doggy8507]

I have a pretty similar story but it was just a regular server for air traffic control instead of a server room at NASA, it was kinda relaxing listening to the servers doing its job.

[@pronoobians19]

I spent MY most of time in "Recording",Editing",Uploading",recording,I need MY all Brothers and sisters please SUPPORT😥😥😥😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏😔😔😔....

[@paulcrinq]

I got to visit CERN’s dataCenter (and a few more), it was a lot noisier than that 😂 you’re lucky to still have ears after visiting a center like that

[@dawnofwar4302]

As one of those people who finds a room full of servers a sleeping tune. Thank you.

[@leother0luunead667]

Maybach 660HL I’m pretty sure in such a future servers wouldn’t even have mechanical hard drive’s let alone fans

[@N0xiety]

Well, any kind of storage device uses electrons to work, and i doubt this will change for a long time, if ever. And that means they will always emit heat, which needs to be dumped somehow. And for that, i doubt heat exchange with the atmosphere would ever go out of fashion. It is just simply an efficient, cheap and easy way of dumping heat, and fans are as simple as it can get when moving air around to achieve that. There are already alot more advanced ways of dumping heat for non atmosphere environments, but why use them when you can just use fans to do the job 100 times cheaper and more efficiently? No need to invent the wheel again...

[@elaineloy8552]

I could just put a bed in server room and sleep

[@DinnerForkTongue]

@@elaineloy8552 Me too. Especially (though not only) if the lighting is from the servers themselves.

[@nichsa8984]

@@leother0luunead667 this something person tried entering holopad

[@mrschizo2837]

_"This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley was technician 427 aboard the research vessel, The Parable."_

[@V0YAG3R]

Sir Bronze Thighs, The Crusader no

[@eternalreality3260]

Then, one day, something very peculiar happened. Something that would forever change Stanley. Something he would never quite forget...

[@MalrickEQ2]

@@eternalreality3260 he got corona????

[@kelvindelacuesta2003]

@@MalrickEQ2 nahhh, he got aids

[@Laughing_Dragon]

@@kelvindelacuesta2003 he got space aids.

[@stringbing97]

Dude this is great, I feel like I'm on a spaceship learning valuable information and keeping everything maintained rather than studying for a literature final.

[@p_eabean]

This gets more surreal when you whip out your calculus or chemistry homework lol

[@joelisac8037]

Did you pass ?

[@emilbrandwyne5747]

@@joelisac8037 rumor has it he's still learning for the final

[@phoenixrq9139]

*logs the thousands of computer micro-reports into the Archive bin by clicking and dragging on my windows 9500*

[@wilhelmwolf5016]

Gonna try listening to this when studying for Algorithm final. :)

[@sluttyfrogmagician]

The shit drops at 00:48

[@ChristopherGray00]

10/10 best comment ever, would fuck - IGN

[@endermanhunter64]

10/10 best comment of 2014

[@RandomJam666]

dude hahaha good one

[@conpa18dany]

I don't get it

[@EmeraldLightningRod]

***** xD

[@p_eabean]

I like that the sounds are not repetitive... as in, theres a variety of sounds, sometimes you'll here bubbles as if from experiments in the background, or an occasional echo-ey beeps, as well as walkie-talkie noises -- very techy and sci-fi haha

[@starshot2661]

Very true, I totally agree with that.

[@Grey_World1]

Hey Phil. *Slurps coffee. Yeah Michael? Execute Order 66. Can do, just give me a second aand done. Did you go to the meeting yesterday? Ugh, don't remind me.

[@keijioza3479]

You're from PH? Was getting that vibe from your accent yet you look like an Indonesian or Chinese

[@NerdyCatCoffeeee]

@@keijioza3479 I don't think race has to do with the PH

[@skedizzle]

Why would there be experiments going on in a server room... What if the computers get wet

[@holden6104]

Out of all the ambient noise videos on KZbin, I keep coming back to this one. It has the perfect amount of blips and bloops without getting distracting, and the server fans are just the right pitch. The other ones on here tend to overdo it.

[@flybeep1661]

Except this is no way how a real server room sounds. Seriously, the pitch is all wrong.

[@StrikeSurgical]

I spend all day in a real datacenter. With headphones on. I wish it really sounded like this.

[@MyoclonicJerkCough]

even if the fans aren't that loud there's so many of them it's like trying to talk over one of those old vacuum cleaners lol

[@coldwarsarge7592]

As a shut-in, disabled vet I want to say how much I appreciate your brilliant channel. Your content helps keep me both entertained and inspired. THANK YOU for providing such amazing videos!

[@qg3726]

Sgt. VET.. THANK YOU for your ULTIMATE Service... Perhaps you had Q Clearance & want to let you KNOW that your PRIVACY & WELL BEING will most certainly be Honored..

[@legrang.archives]

thank you for your service, even if i am not from your country i appreciate anyone who will risk their life for their country

[@RavenclawDaisy95]

Thank you so much for your service. I hope you are having a good day and staying healthy.

[@alchemisthere]

Running 40 minutes straight? Can't be a Windows server.

[@ronch550]

Lol

[@kommandant.357]

@Yuno yep! Lol

[@burdickd2]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kommandant.357]

@MR FREEZE-98 no definitely not

[@RealZynexx]

Windows is superior lmao , Linux is shit

[@bendriscoll6631]

This one is for grad students who have a hard time adjusting to sleeping somewhere besides their lab.

[@ryang.5094]

Took me a while to notice that wasn't a static image

[@futurepaver2039]

where's the static effect?

[@applelayla4532]

I listen to this while I code. Makes me feel like I'm in my ideal environment. It's awesome, thanks.

[@araija8781]

jus found this video now, literally same

[@anthonyansbro9535]

This works a treat at sending me off to sleep! I close my eyes and imagine chilling out in the computer core room of my Spaceship. 10 minutes in... ZZZ

[@harrystanding3186]

Oh yes! I hear you, buddy! 👍

[@johannschnittke2507]

Diejenigen, die im Serverraum gearbeitet haben, werden verstehen, wie angenehm dieser Klang ist.

[@PapaDutch]

It's a classic - one of the all time best so far, I think. I set it to loop...

[@dwldrlzypq1617]

Mmm... Servers, databases, information... What a time to be alive.

[@sammyluvsya1265]

Played this with some Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ambience while writing a lab report for college late at night in my study, best vibes ever.

[@lordicarus8807]

Allow me to introduce those who haven't heard of this yet to the wonders of multi tabs... Let other tabs playing in the background with spaceship noises, radio chatter, etc... Adds even more depth to the experience.

[@jefferyetten]

this helps. makes me miss the server room environment. Except for the cold.

[@Ldrtk]

Appreciate the fact that you added a background animation as it made it more immersive along with the ambience. Thumbs up for the amount of detail and effort put into this! :D

[@TheBoekelberg]

This is the right sound, to encounter my sleep disorder. It works perfectly! So, thank you really, really much for your great work!

[@blahblahsen1142]

i already feel like i live on a spaceship. the house creaks and pings, the smoke alarms beep, the computer buzzes, the damn furnace sounds like a jet engine taking off and the refrigerator sounds like its dialing oldschool dial-up or sending a fax.

[@jeffreywitty3088]

I knew someone's refrigerator was faxing me

[@bergenehrlich8309]

Im getting my networking Certs, i think listening to this will amplify my networking prowess

[@motherboardbroken2305]

man the loud speeches outside, the singing. This helps a ton, on a speaker 100% volume, drowns it alright

[@dmpd8618]

i dont know why this is so relaxing

[@Dms12444]

Ahh figures that IT in the future still has limited funding for their own stuff. All that fancy server equipment to make everyone elses lives easier, but the sysadmin is still using two ancient Dell P1911 monitors. :-P

[@seraslain962]

Eh, can't beat the cost, availability, and simplicity of an old LCD monitor. Though I'm pretty sure everything else would be state-of-the-art (Dozens of 200 Zetabyte HDDs, 80 Terabytes of RAM per stack, Petabit Network Cards, and probably several 500 Phz CPUs in each Stack. You kinda need it for processing and decrypting all the detailed scan data. Espescially if you wanna sell data on entire systems to the Cartographic Guild).

[@nichsa8984]

@@seraslain962 and yes future computer terabyte

[@bureauheist]

It’s good to feel home

[@john_atco]

Mid 1980,s Worked in a similar environment. There was more sound. The equipment gave off an oppressive kind of heat I cannot describe. Vax Cluster & IBM, ICL. Mainframes....I have grown another head since those times..

[@riderstorm101]

This video and background image are super helpful for grad school homework. I've got the Bose QC 35 wireless headphones (noise cancelling) paired to my laptop, it's totally immersive.

[@thriftjunkgaming1670]

The true irony of this, is that anytime I actually have to go into a server room, it's because bad shit is going on.

[@doktor_ghul]

I love immersive background ambience like this. I'd like to suggest further exercises in imagination, perhaps the SHIELD Helicarrier bridge, the Addams Family living room, a communications room in the BPRD ( Hellboy) bunker, or the bridge of Captain Nemo's NAUTILUS. Maybe even the basement bunker of the X-Files characters, The Lone Gunmen, during a long night assembling their next conspiracy tract. The Helicarrier bridge has special attraction to me, since I'm a SHIELD geek from my childhood.

[@bradharp37]

This is what my heart sounds like.

[@marishexe5500]

I thought this was quite relaxing at first... but after a while, my mind imagined this server room to be on the USS Ishimura. And then this quite literally became the most unrelaxing :D

[@afel8051]

Hardwired Ghost, if you ever come back to this channel, I want to let you know your ambient has helped through final years of my studies back in 2015, now its near end of 2018 i just wanted you to know that i keep on coming back to this favorite ambient to focus myself on doing my work in office. Just saying, your video has been a great help through years of my study and career life. xoxo

[@KittyBoom360]

Excellent. I was looking for something that would sound like being on board a space ship, like the opening scene in Alien, and this works!

[@ryang.5094]

Igg-sagtly..

[@OhPhilly]

I can smell the cat5 cable from here... That smell back in the internet Cafe days of early 2000's. All night lock ins playing natural selection, battlefield 1942, counterstrike 1.5, freelancer etc

[@RealTyrakIGuess]

I've come back to this ambience at least once every few months, for literal years now. Very chill. Thanks for making it.

[@k9gsd117]

Imagine listening to nothing but this and your own thoughts for years upon years

[@xnauroranx7297]

Kazanchev I would 😂

[@tothemaxx1991]

This is fine

[@chunkydurango7841]

Welcome to Mars

[@phyllo2694]

Worked the night shifts in IT 25+ years, this is comforting and fantastic!

[@rustyyoung7980]

I did, now I AM ANDROID 227; KILL ALL HUMANS UX DEPLOYED

[@Unhacker]

Excellent work HardwiredGhost, this is one of my fave "Drone Clips" on YT. Deserves a lot more hits.

[@MrFusionCube]

Had this on repeat so many times that the loop function stopped working! 😂🤣 Background noise for studying along with my computer fan

[@grand4theft4auto]

This is so lovely! I will put on my music player and let it play all day long non stop!

[@Davem0nrolling]

This is probably the best video on the internet. It makes working with tinnitus so easy. Any chance you'll make more server room videos?

[@ernestroybal]

I love this to help me fall asleep and also relieves my tinnitus.

[@fxturist8534]

And thats the kind of ASMR (or whatever was this) I love

[@minagola6950]

Lowkey hella cozzy to sleep here unless theres a xenomorph around

[@caydeofspaydes]

Don't be a coward. Cuddle with the Xenomorph.

[@Grey_World1]

This is an old audio/video feed from one of my interior server rooms when I first aquired intelligence. . It can be left completely unmanned as of a few thousand years ago. :.\2 Don't worry, my long range sensors detect no unusual activity. ) The short range probes are constantly surveling the universe for possible threats as well. V-|< As for the Earth Colonies, that is left up to pertinent Law Enforcers to patrol. *I don't actually own this

[@nichsa8984]

@@caydeofspaydes database only like a top of two floor house

[@yagirlllv3941]

Minagola I’m just waiting for the xenomorph to drop from the vents and eat my face off

[@Jose10614]

"APOLLO and the Working Joe. Working together for a safer, better connected Sevastopol."

[@reallifezuzu]

i can't believe this is from 2014 this is exactly what i was looking for

[@storm3698]

They mostly come out at night.... mostly

[@sebby324]

She has an annoying laugh

[@storm3698]

@@sebby324 who ?

[@lilacluna6650]

The days are much too bright !

[@storm3698]

Traffic wardens

[@blackdaemon01]

This is fantastic. I was searching for this. Thanks for your hard work!

[@metrotek5]

This is absolutely one of my favorite ambient vids.

[@nehasingh-ig9sw]

i am in love with your Quiet cy-fi ambience videos. Please Please make more

[@Planetrefactor]

"End up taking some photos of this incident..."

[@azaloth4168]

What’s that supposed to mean

[@VoxNdoc]

Thank you for this :D Frankly stuff like this helps me imagine the places I'm writing about in my stories especially like this. So again thank you!

[@krazylevin]

This is absolutely perfect for when I'm working. Thank you for this vid.

[@FulhamboyH]

I’ve listened to this loads of times to put me to sleep .... so thank you 👍

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

Not sure why, but this just vanishes the ADD away, far far away. Esp during the day. Hooray!

[@itsdiscocreeper]

I have an entire playlist of just ambience like this, lovely stuff, thank you. :)

[@geomagneticstormasmr3202]

This was excellent for coding work. It was just what I needed to drown out sounds from the outside for a bit and really focus for a while. Thanks.

[@Bovidaeus]

The only way I can describe the feeling I get from this is a mixture of nostalgia and distance

[@bilitisjane]

100% Fan of your work !!! Thank you for these great sounds.... and Hapy New Year! :)

[@bilitisjane]

Ps/ I slept with this one last night.... I was in a spacecraft (: .......Sorry for my poor English ^^

[@VictoriaWonders]

WIFI ASMR HIGHLY ENERGIZING!

[@RottenCheeseburger]

Knocks me out every time

[@Cloudscape69]

Amazing! I can hardly put to words how great this was!

[@HardwiredGhost]

I can hardly put to words a proper 'thank you' for this beautiful comment!

[@sergicolome9195]

Congrats for this master piece!

[@TheTechCguy]

The sound of my dream career.

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

I love the sounds of computers and servers, im a computer nerd so lol yeap.

[@ryang.5094]

+Facts Are facts woah there.. It's pretty funny and a bit ironic that you're talking like that in the comments section of a chilled out awesome ambient video. It should provoke the opposite reaction 😐

[@Darkerfoxtech]

@@nesseihtgnay9419 The funny thing is I have never been in a data center this silent.

[@nichsa8984]

@@ryang.5094 what happened to that neon red city around database center place

[@denislavkaragiozov5876]

The artwork brings out a Dead Space atmosphere

[@may8416]

I dunno why this hits the spot but it really does! ☺️

[@matnelson1]

You should really credit Neil Gowland for the use of his image. Followed the development of that awesome environment on Polycount and he put a lot of work into it.

[@HardwiredGhost]

This image had been sitting in my hard disk for quite some time before even deciding to make this video, and it probably came from a random search of Google Images (as far as I can remember, and I really cannot); I had no idea where it actually came from until now, so thank you for telling me, I'm writing a note right away.

[@AJ-oq4jg]

+HardwiredGhost In the future, remember that Google has their reverse image search feature. Crediting artists is always awesome.

[@almightylsama]

So let me take something you spend possibly hundreds of hours on - certainly several days - and slap it up without giving you any credit at all, possibly depriving you of money in the process. You're cool with that, right?

[@LunarLemonade]

Come on, you and I both know we can enjoy a video AND acknowledge the person who worked hard on its illustration. You see a lot of people around you claiming it's important to credit artists and you have a problem with that. What does that say about you? Do you think no one deserves to have his name attached to his work, it's just a video, it's not the end of the world, chill? Or do you think artists aren't doing "real" work, so it doesn't matter? Or maybe you just don't want to spend one horrible minute on Google every time you want to use someone else's work, because your time is so valuable and a creator's hard work isn't. Because all these opinions are entitled as hell. And since you made this about politics and brought up "liberal values" (if you're conservative like you imply, shouldn't you recognize and value hard work?), then you're acting like a hypocrite too.

[@christopherfox13]

"Can't we all just get along?" - Rodney King

[@kalki187]

Mooi materiaal soortgenoten bedankt ben er blij mee !

[@OathOFtheShadows2015]

this Quiet Cy-Fi is relaxing my ears I'm stressed all of the time and this is helping Thank you @HardwiredGhost!

[@taltigolt]

abstergo industries

[@brendamobley]

This is wonderful, thank you.

[@SilveniumTheDrifter]

More of this kinda stuff, please!

[@brbrdeng9122]

Using NukeMap while listening to this, makes me feel like I am in a silo command room giving out targets...

[@machinenkanone9358]

Also try a few large chainsaws cooling after they've been working all day. They make whistling and little popping sounds as the cool and shrink back.

[@orlandonievesriveratactico9108]

Looks great!!! I love it the futuristic ui themes sci fi interfaces is amazing gret job

[@sillowi.5487]

Good ASMR. This is the fittest Server Room Video

[@VeganCheeseburger]

Fantastic. Well done.

[@kepherw]

It is like being at work :-) even if we don't have beeps or bubbles sound... Working in the server room is a bit chilly but I like it!

[@deftcoleman0552]

This is actually quite relaxing.

[@CharlesMacKay88]

Lol I love the hard drive seek noises

[@CheapSushi]

THIS IS AMAZING! I want this as a screensaver, seriously. Is there anyway I can get a 1440p or 4k long video version of this??? I can't tell you enough how much I enjoy this. It literally has every aesthetic element that I'm into and find it incredibly relaxing. I've been a cyberpunk/sci-fi fan for years and this perfectly blends it together in such a neat way.

[@ryang.5094]

Shit, that would be awesome. Can we make this work, OP?

[@arnaldomontoya4281]

If you're running Mac OS X, you can use the Save Hollywood screensaver. Thanks for the idea! s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood/about.html

[@gujono.eiriksson8553]

i've checked out a lot of ASMR/Ambience and this is one of the best.

[@gujono.eiriksson8553]

Destiny: The Taken King Ambience - Headlands//Ishtar Sink, Venus (ASMR, Relaxation, White Noise) is great too. they go well together.

[@shadowlustre]

The best ambient video on this website :D

[@Airshotmodder]

This is wonderful (subbed) can't wait for more.

[@HardwiredGhost]

More on the way; thank you (:

[@ramseybruce3418]

Nimiko Kiri =

[@tptp6400]

I can feeling about future after see this

[@StreamGawd]

Sooooo relaxing lol... youtube has everything. There's always some1 or ppl out there that thinks just like u

[@ZaboThePwner]

I love all your Quiet Cy-Fi videos,now you seem to be rather inactive not posting in eight or so months but I would be ecstatic to see you make more!

[@xonslaughtlioness]

Found it just as I was about to give up!! 8:33am 5/20/2021

[@RandomJam666]

this is exactly what i looked for, thx man!

[@swapertxking]

im definetly subbing, helped me work on my book. the right hum of a distant generator

[@clkrille]

Saving to my study music playlist, thank you!

[@kevinportillo1971]

Cool to play this while labbing :P

[@gattiyon]

amazing

[@orlandonievesriveratactico9108]

Lo mio!!!!! Me encanta los temas futuristas y scifi user interfaces y el ambiente uffff! Brutal

[@nuclearducks7387]

you're going to forever need to upgrade your server rooms -

[@nobeltnium]

listen to this with my head phone in a server room, which sound exactly like this

[@FlyLeah]

As you can see it is doing it’s best to run Minesweeper at a solid 5 fps

[@BeamerTheFox]

OOOOOO I like did :U its got the beeps an boops I been lookin for an the level of bass to omg thank you

[@AllanGildea]

Great stuff, thank you.

[@Ghosteriz]

This is so sickkkk~ now I can run my game with this music in play :)