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So you want to build your own data center

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toddmorey ◴[18 Jan 25 00:09 UTC] No.42744572[source]▶
Reminds me of the old Rackspace days! Boy we had some war stories:

   - Some EMC guys came to install a storage device for us to test... and tripped over each other and knocked out an entire Rack of servers like a comedy skit. (They uh... didn't win the contract.)
   - Some poor guy driving a truck had a heart attack and the crash took our DFW datecenter offline. (There were ballards to prevent this sort of scenario, but the cement hadn't been poured in them yet.)
   - At one point we temporarily laser-beamed bandwidth across the street to another building
   - There was one day we knocked out windows and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire.
Data center science has... well improved since the earlier days. We worked with Facebook on the OpenCompute Project that had some very forward looking infra concepts at the time.
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lostlogin ◴[18 Jan 25 01:17 UTC] No.42744904[source]▶
> There was one day we knocked out windows and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire.

Pointing the fans in or out?

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sitkack ◴[18 Jan 25 02:38 UTC] No.42745315[source]▶
You want to point them in.
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1. gr3ml1n ◴[18 Jan 25 06:59 UTC] No.42746464[source]▶
The datacenters I've been in with emergency cooling fans in the walls all exhaust out, not in. Easier to get portable CRACs inside and get a good draft going.