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We're working on a project to use open compute racks and servers in a 20' shipping container on one end and a swamp cooler using evaporative media instead of a
by deerpig 11y ago
We're working on a project to use open compute racks and servers in a 20' shipping container on one end and a swamp cooler using evaporative media instead of a mister on the other end. It's similar to SGI's discontinued 16' ICE CUBE, but it will be a modular system (computer racks are only one type of module) and an it's an open design which will be donated to open compute (if they're open to the idea).
The idea is to be able to quickly and cheaply deploy infrastructure in developing SE Asian countries (we're in Phnom Penh).
The problem we keep running into is that when we contact venders selling open compute servers, they don't take us seriously because we aren't building out data centers with hundreds or thousands of racks....