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On paper and practically speaking it makes sense, use the hardware for as long as possible. The extra work will be done by the people in charge of break fix wor

On paper and practically speaking it makes sense, use the hardware for as long as possible. The extra work will be done by the people in charge of break fix work in the DCs. That rate of that is likely to increase.

anamax 3y ago
In most cases, they don't fix, they decommission in place or run as degraded and that's likely automated. (They might pull a whole rack if enough servers in it die, but that's rare.)
- lijok 3y ago
  We don’t pull whole racks anymore. We pull whole DCs if enough servers in it die.
  - tutfbhuf 3y ago
    Skip forward 10 years, we pull whole regions if enough servers in it die.
    - candiodari 3y ago
      Forgotten how to count that low?
    - solardev 3y ago
      North America was decommissioned today as Bard made the determination it was no longer worth the maintenance costs. With servers approaching nearly six months old and a median human population age of almost 40, electricity and food costs alone proved to be challenging. Liquidation is expected take two weeks, and precious metals and organic materials will be recycled for use in other continents. Alphabet stock rose 0.2% on the news.
      - sidewndr46 3y ago
        After this event Bard encountered a bug which caused it to replace all previous prompts with the goals of the Hartz-Timor swarm from the fictional "Horizon: Zero Dawn" universe. Several divisions of Alphabet were immediately tasked with creating machines which could directly consume the biosphere to self-replicate. The AI safety division was immediately let go. By the time humanity realized what was happening they were unable to stop it. As no backdoor was included in Bard, it was able to completely exterminate life on Earth in only 18 months.
        solardev 3y ago
        > it was able to completely exterminate life on Earth in only 18 months "exterminate" I think you misspelled "iterate"
- pests 3y ago
  I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed that their minimumm work unit for replacement is the rack and not the server or hard drive level.
Kluggy 3y ago
Isn't the cycling out of old hardware to make room for new hardware less about the lifespan and more about increasing compute power for equal or less electrical power?
- lijok 3y ago
  It’s kinda the same thing. From DC management perspective, it’s EOL if it’s not economical to run relative to new hardware available

anamax 3y ago

In most cases, they don't fix, they decommission in place or run as degraded and that's likely automated. (They might pull a whole rack if enough servers in it die, but that's rare.)

lijok 3y ago
We don’t pull whole racks anymore. We pull whole DCs if enough servers in it die.
- tutfbhuf 3y ago
  Skip forward 10 years, we pull whole regions if enough servers in it die.
  - candiodari 3y ago
    Forgotten how to count that low?
  - solardev 3y ago
    North America was decommissioned today as Bard made the determination it was no longer worth the maintenance costs. With servers approaching nearly six months old and a median human population age of almost 40, electricity and food costs alone proved to be challenging. Liquidation is expected take two weeks, and precious metals and organic materials will be recycled for use in other continents. Alphabet stock rose 0.2% on the news.
    - sidewndr46 3y ago
      After this event Bard encountered a bug which caused it to replace all previous prompts with the goals of the Hartz-Timor swarm from the fictional "Horizon: Zero Dawn" universe. Several divisions of Alphabet were immediately tasked with creating machines which could directly consume the biosphere to self-replicate. The AI safety division was immediately let go. By the time humanity realized what was happening they were unable to stop it. As no backdoor was included in Bard, it was able to completely exterminate life on Earth in only 18 months.
      - solardev 3y ago
        > it was able to completely exterminate life on Earth in only 18 months "exterminate" I think you misspelled "iterate"
pests 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed that their minimumm work unit for replacement is the rack and not the server or hard drive level.

Kluggy 3y ago

Isn't the cycling out of old hardware to make room for new hardware less about the lifespan and more about increasing compute power for equal or less electrical power?

lijok 3y ago
It’s kinda the same thing. From DC management perspective, it’s EOL if it’s not economical to run relative to new hardware available