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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: 0.412s | source
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ZeroCool2u ◴[21 Nov 24 21:41 UTC] No.42208963[source]▶
If any Oxide staff are here, I'm just curious, is BlueSky a customer? Seems like it would fit well with their on-prem setup.
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danpalmer ◴[21 Nov 24 22:03 UTC] No.42209156[source]▶
Not Oxide or Bluesky, but firstly I'd suggest that asking the company about their customers is unlikely to get a response, most companies don't disclose their customers. Secondly, Bluesky have been growing quickly, I can only assume their hardware is too, and that means long lead time products like an Oxide rack aren't going to work, especially when you can have an off the shelf machine from Dell delivered in a few days.
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steveklabnik ◴[21 Nov 24 23:48 UTC] No.42209859[source]▶
Oxide is very open, we are happy to talk about customers that allow us to talk about them. Some don’t want to, others are very happy to be mentioned, just like any other company.
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1. danpalmer ◴[22 Nov 24 00:20 UTC] No.42210067[source]▶
> we are happy to talk about customers that allow us to talk about them

This is what I meant by "don't disclose", I didn't mean that Oxide was in any way secretive, but that usually this stuff doesn't get agreed, and that it would make more sense to ask the customer rather than the company selling as Oxide won't want to disclose unless there's already an agreement in place (formal or otherwise).

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2. steveklabnik ◴[22 Nov 24 00:32 UTC] No.42210129[source]▶
Gotcha. That totally makes sense, I would t have thought about it that way.