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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half

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195 points tosh | 2 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.683s | source
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unsnap_biceps ◴[21 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42208296[source]▶
> When we started Oxide, the DC bus bar stood as one of the most glaring differences between the rack-scale machines at the hyperscalers and the rack-and-stack servers that the rest of the market was stuck with. That a relatively simple piece of copper was unavailable to commercial buyers

It seems that 0xide was founded in 2019 and Open Compute Project had been specifying dc bus bars for 6 years at that point. People could purchase racks if they wanted, but it seems like, by large, people didn't care enough to go whole hog in on it.

Wonder if the economics have changed or if it's still just neat but won't move the needle.

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1. indrora ◴[21 Nov 24 22:31 UTC] No.42209361[source]▶
You simply can't buy OCP hardware is part of the issue, not new anyway. What you're going to find is "OCP Inspired" hardware that has some overlap with the full OCP specification but is almost always meant to run on 240VAC on 19in racks because nobody wants to invest the money in something that can't be bought from CDW.
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2. p_l ◴[22 Nov 24 00:07 UTC] No.42209990[source]▶
I remember the one time I had OCP hardware in data center, and how it was essentially rumoured it's better to not ask too much how it got there - not the level of "fell of a truck", but some possibility it was ex-(big tech) equipment acquired through favours, or some really insistent negotiating with Quanta till "to be sold to (big tech)" racks ended up with us