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Well, think of it this way -- individual 1U servers can easily consume 1000W, or 1kW. Put about forty of those in a single rack, and that's 40kW. Divide 80MW fo
by bradknowles 3y ago
Well, think of it this way -- individual 1U servers can easily consume 1000W, or 1kW. Put about forty of those in a single rack, and that's 40kW. Divide 80MW for the datacenter by 40kW per rack and that's not very many racks to comprise the entire datacenter, right?
- buildbot 3y agoThat’s still 2000 racks, that’s not nothing?
- bradknowles 3y agoNo, 2000 racks is not nothing. But I would say that's a pretty small datacenter, wouldn't you?
- buildbot 3y agoI actually have no idea to be honest!
- seec 3y agoThe footprint for 2000 racks would be over 1000m2; when you add the necessary spacing as well as supplementary utilities (power/networking) that probably means double that footprint. I guess at the scale those companies are operating it's not that big, but that's still quite a large building !