Re:Pioneer of Central Washington cryptocurrency boom falls o...
by stephengillie on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:25PM
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They could have used cargo containers instead of buildings. This is definitely a cart-before-horse situation.
Re:Pioneer of Central Washington cryptocurrency boom falls o...
by hinkley on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:22PM
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In the final years of Sun Microsystems, they converted containers to integrated server rooms and were (starting to? planning to?) sell them. Servers, cooling, access, everything but the power IIRC.
Still one of the more impressive pieces of tech I've seen.
[Edit] I had forgotten that Google was up to something pretty similar during the same time frame.
The article says 24 prefab buildings. Building 24 buildings at once as a new company sets off alarm bells for me. It also talks about cost overruns. On prefab buildings? Oof.
From the picture, if you look carefully I think you can see almost a dozen of them in an incomplete state (the one on the far left might be done).
It sounds like they didn't stagger the buildout. I can't imagine the property in Central Washington was the expensive bit. If I were involved in this project I'd have been much more comfortable if they had bought all the land, and come up with a three phase plan where they figure out how to do construction without interrupting operations in the other buildings. If the contractor screws up the first 8 you switch contractors.
Or maybe even better, you plan for 32 buildings and do it in 4 phases. Give your salesforce a story about growth and good things in the future. They can work with that.