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What do you want some pictures of?
by textfiles 8mo ago
What do you want some pictures of?
- schmuckonwheels 8mo agoAn article about "infrastructure" that opens up with a dramatic description of a datacenter stuffed into an old church, I would expect more than just generic clipart you'd see in the back half of Wired magazine.
- textfiles 8mo agoHere's some photos I took a long time ago. https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157633722203885/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/7215763372220...
- Tempest1981 8mo agoThanks! The church attendees (employees?) have a Severence Kier vibe... although I'm guessing the TV show came much later.
- darkwater 8mo agoThat'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 8mo agoFridays at about 1pm, we give tours.
- schmuckonwheels 8mo agoThat'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 8mo ago[dead]
- fc417fc802 8mo agoNo 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 8mo agoThere 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.