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'America hates data centers,' new database reveals more than 90% of 10,000 public comments are negative
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The average person, but not the average (non AI) business.
There's no way I could take our R7725s with dual 300 watt threadrippers and fit that in a shoe box. And we're a small company.
Yeah, but even then it’s going from a shoebox to a closet.
A closet with some pretty hefty air conditioning. We tried a closet and that won't cut it.
Plus what's a datacenter but one big airconditioned closet?
Auditable access control and security, private connectivity to vendors and partners, advanced fire prevention, a formalised process for access for vendor support, delivery docks for full rack unit appliances, separate circuits for power, space for cable runs, 24/7 concierge.
Rolling your own datacentre is ludicrously expensive when you can just rent half a rack of space, this would kill small businesses and major corps would just take the hit and pass it on to consumers.
It’s a big closet you need to build a new building for, hurting animals I like a lot more than people.
What if we put the closets in empty offices and let people work from home?
They usually have raised tiled floors where you can lift a tile and duck under to do some cabling.