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So you want to build your own data center

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309 points dban | 1 comments | 17 Jan 25 20:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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jonatron ◴[17 Jan 25 22:24 UTC] No.42743915[source]▶
Why would you call colocation "building your own data center"? You could call it "colocation" or "renting space in a data center". What are you building? You're racking. Can you say what you mean?
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xiconfjs ◴[17 Jan 25 23:17 UTC] No.42744262[source]▶
I have to second this. While it takes mich effort and in-depth knowledge do build up from an “empty” cage it’s still far from dealing with everything from building permits, to plan and realize a data center to code including redundant power lines, AC and fibre.

Still kudos going this path in the cloud-centric time we live in.

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1. llm_trw ◴[18 Jan 25 02:11 UTC] No.42745193[source]▶
Do I have stories.

One of the better was the dead possum in the drain during a thunderstorm.

>So do we throw the main switch before we get electroduced? Or do we try to poke enough holes in it that it gets flushed out? And what about the half million in servers that are going to get ruined?

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