---
title: "Sun Project Blackbox: The Trailer Trash Datacenter"
description: "A humorous take on Sun's datacenter-in-a-container project"
author: "Colin McNamara"
tags: ["sun","datacenter","humor","infrastructure"]
image: "https://colinmcnamara.com/images/blog/sun-project-blackbox-datacenter-humor/featured.png"
date: 2006-11-11
url: https://colinmcnamara.com/blog/sun-project-blackbox-datacenter-humor
---

# Sun Project Blackbox: The Trailer Trash Datacenter

Q: What do internal Sun employees call Project Blackbox?  
A: The trailer trash datacenter

I couldn't even try to come up with a better punchline.

*Note: Project Blackbox was Sun Microsystems' innovative but somewhat controversial attempt at creating a datacenter-in-a-container solution.*