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It would be interesting to sell a data center in a container. Cooling, power supply, compute, storage, and network, all in a box. You supply power, a big netw

It would be interesting to sell a data center in a container. Cooling, power supply, compute, storage, and network, all in a box. You supply power, a big network pipe, and the piping to external heat exchangers.

c_o_n_v_e_x 3y ago
There are quite a few companies selling “modular data centers” now.
dthul 3y ago
I know one company who offers that (there might be more): https://www.grando.ai/en/container https://www.grando.ai/en/container
anewlanguage 3y ago
AWS does that already for the defense industry: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-aws-modular-data-center-u-s-department-defense-joint-warfighting-cloud-capability https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-aws-mod...
jjav 3y ago
> It would be interesting to sell a data center in a container. Sun did that experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter
- cryptonector 3y ago
  Yeah, I'm aware, but I didn't think they were serious about it.
  - ahl 3y ago
    That's entirely fair: Sun wasn't serious about most of the products they rolled out... and customers noticed.
  - deleted 3y ago
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throw0101c 3y ago
See §Examples: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center Also: * https://www.deltapowersolutions.com/en/mcis/data-center-solutions-containerized-datacenter.php https://www.deltapowersolutions.com/en/mcis/data-center-solu... * https://atos.net/en/solutions/high-performance-computing-hpc/mobull-datacenter-container https://atos.net/en/solutions/high-performance-computing-hpc... * https://www.zelladc.com/zella-max https://www.zelladc.com/zella-max Search for "shipping container data centre" or "containerized datacenter".
- bayindirh 3y ago
  Huawei also does this. Built to order, single container. Completely isolated, plug’n’play.
numpad0 3y ago
There are whitebox Windows laptops, OpenWRT routers, Arduino boards, ArduPilot drones, etc. It almost sounds strange that there are no prepopulated 12U racks intended for OpenStack(is that still a thing?)
rtpg 3y ago
IIJ has a project like this, data center in a container, just add power. They build it all up in Japan, ship it to rural areas across the world to basically jumpstart a local data center (I imagine mostly for industrial sites). They had a fun project where they had a half rack, powered by solar and connected to the net via Starlink.
regularfry 3y ago
No idea how they do things today, but v0.1 of Azure (before it was called Azure) was a bunch of containers in a field. I remember seeing an aerial photo at the time.

c_o_n_v_e_x 3y ago

There are quite a few companies selling “modular data centers” now.

dthul 3y ago

I know one company who offers that (there might be more): https://www.grando.ai/en/container https://www.grando.ai/en/container

anewlanguage 3y ago

AWS does that already for the defense industry: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-aws-modular-data-center-u-s-department-defense-joint-warfighting-cloud-capability https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-aws-mod...

jjav 3y ago

> It would be interesting to sell a data center in a container. Sun did that experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter

cryptonector 3y ago
Yeah, I'm aware, but I didn't think they were serious about it.
- ahl 3y ago
  That's entirely fair: Sun wasn't serious about most of the products they rolled out... and customers noticed.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]

throw0101c 3y ago

See §Examples: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center Also: * https://www.deltapowersolutions.com/en/mcis/data-center-solutions-containerized-datacenter.php https://www.deltapowersolutions.com/en/mcis/data-center-solu... * https://atos.net/en/solutions/high-performance-computing-hpc/mobull-datacenter-container https://atos.net/en/solutions/high-performance-computing-hpc... * https://www.zelladc.com/zella-max https://www.zelladc.com/zella-max Search for "shipping container data centre" or "containerized datacenter".

bayindirh 3y ago
Huawei also does this. Built to order, single container. Completely isolated, plug’n’play.

numpad0 3y ago

There are whitebox Windows laptops, OpenWRT routers, Arduino boards, ArduPilot drones, etc. It almost sounds strange that there are no prepopulated 12U racks intended for OpenStack(is that still a thing?)

rtpg 3y ago

IIJ has a project like this, data center in a container, just add power. They build it all up in Japan, ship it to rural areas across the world to basically jumpstart a local data center (I imagine mostly for industrial sites). They had a fun project where they had a half rack, powered by solar and connected to the net via Starlink.

regularfry 3y ago

No idea how they do things today, but v0.1 of Azure (before it was called Azure) was a bunch of containers in a field. I remember seeing an aerial photo at the time.