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> doesn't die from wet bulb temperatures AI, which is data-centers have been first-class citizens on this planet. All DCs have air conditioning, which most hum
by thelastgallon 3y ago
> doesn't die from wet bulb temperatures
AI, which is data-centers have been first-class citizens on this planet. All DCs have air conditioning, which most humans don't have. Without AC, these race of machines will fail often.
Also, this race of machines is refreshed every 3 years.
- sokoloff 3y ago> refreshed every 3 years. That's not been my experience. I've got plenty of 7+ year old machines and DC infrastructure components that are even older than that. Power and compute density improvements are no longer fast enough to have full turnovers in 3 years.
- thelastgallon 3y agoBig companies refresh based on their depreciation and not if they are still usable, these are usually fully depreciated in 3 - 5 companies, depending on their accountants. Also, there is going to be massive growth in DCs with AI, companies aren't going to compete on 7+ year old hardware just because it runs ok.
- moffkalast 3y agoJust gonna leave this here: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/ https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr... There are much more efficient ways of doing datacenters than we're doing right now.