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.
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?