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Here's some photos I took a long time ago. https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157633722203885/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/721

• Tempest1981 9mo ago
  Thanks! The church attendees (employees?) have a Severence Kier vibe... although I'm guessing the TV show came much later.
• darkwater 9mo ago
  That's super cool! Can the IA building be accessed by some random people like myself? Next time I'm in SF (who knows when that will be though) I'd very much like visiting it!
  • textfiles 9mo ago
    Fridays at about 1pm, we give tours.
• schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
  That's great. Ask and ye shall receive. What's most surprising is churches notoriously have really sketchy electrical. There had to be some renovation in that regard, right?
  • cindyllm 9mo ago
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  • fc417fc802 9mo ago
    No regular residential building is set up to host a datacenter off the bat. Even racking more than half a dozen boxes in a given room requires an upgrade. Most rooms in North America won't be wired for anything over 2.5 kW by default (kitchens and laundry rooms being obvious exceptions). An electric dryer might pull 5 kW. An electric range ballpark 10 kW. Versus 15 kW per full rack for a fairly tame setup. And then you've got the problem of dissipating all that heat.
  • textfiles 9mo ago
    There was a lot of renovation. One day they fired up the pipe organ (which still works) inside the building as well as the servers and the transformer for the street blew up. That was a legendary day.