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
    6·
    21 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.

    • Geologist@lemmy.zip
      3·
      9 hours ago

      I had this problem with Equinix! They limited our company to like 10kva per rack, and we were installing nvidia dgx servers. Depending on the model we could fit only one or two lol.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      20 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?