Was looking through my office window at the data closet and (due to angle, objects, field of view) could only see one server light cluster out of the 6 racks full. And thought it would be nice to scale everything down to 2U. Then day-dreamed about a future where a warehouse data center was reduced to a single hypercube sitting alone in the vast darkness.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    8 hours ago

    They look silly now. Many data centers are not scaling up power per rack. With GPUs, there are often two chassis per rack.

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      7 hours ago

      Have that problem ourselves, they didn’t provision power or cooling for this kind of density, and how do you pipe in multiple megawatts to a warehouse in the middle of nowhere?