DATA CENTER GETS STAR TREATMENT.

This article focuses on the Letterman Digital Arts Center, the data facility of Lucasfilm Ltd in San Francisco, California. Inside the facility, everything is state of the art. The multistory buildings include a 13,500-square-foot data center, raised floors that accommodate more than 600 miles of network cabling, and a 3,000-square-foot media data center. The latter is capable of simultaneously delivering high-definition video to remote clients and to several in house viewing spaces. INSETS: SPREADING THE STORAGE LOAD;CONSOLIDATION OF CULTURES.