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Re:Pioneer of Central Washington cryptocurrency boom falls o... by stephengillie on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:25PM (#18259262)
They could have used cargo containers instead of buildings. This is definitely a cart-before-horse situation.
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Re:Pioneer of Central Washington cryptocurrency boom falls o... by hinkley on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:22PM (#18260783)
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.

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