So, I hear there's a bunch of unused office space due to work-from-home, is it really lacking that much power?
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Yes... and the ability to deal with super densely packed rack weight.
Like seriously, they can't use existing empty data center space because the floors aren't built to deal with ones that tightly packed of equipment.
That office space is in cities that won't let them steal all the water and power and then dump pollution into the water supply.
So they're using gasoline to run jet engines that rotate turbines that generate electricity? wtf
Article about this: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers-turn-to-ex-airliner-engines-as-ai-power-crunch-bites
Not unusual in the slightest. They're often used as peaking plants that fire up when energy prices are driven high enough by demand. Can be setup to run on all sorts of different fuels.
This isn't for power peaks, it's for a temporary data center. There is nothing usual about it.
Did you even read the comment first?
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“Here he comes! Immortan Mark!”
Here's an idea: cut all the RTO orders and retrofit all those useless offices into data centers. No one wants to live in the city or suburbs anyways.
