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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by rkachowski on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:32AM (#26409128)
is that entirely cargo containers? is that common for a data center?
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by Jon_Lowtek on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:07AM (#26409323)
No, SBG2 was a building in the "tower design", as is SBG3 behind it. The container in the foreground are SBG1 from the time when OVH didn't know if Straßburg is going to be a permanent thing.
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by jfrunyon on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:09AM (#26409330)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center

Container DCs were a big thing for a while. Even Google did a whole PR thing about how they used them.

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by donalhunt on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:07PM (#26413483)
Funnily enough, I think it was the fire risk that caused them to ditch the idea and move to their current design. Though I know modular design is highly likely to be used by all players as edge nodes spring up worldwide.
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by jeffbee on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:20PM (#26413626)
It was also that the container had literally no advantages. It was just a meme that did not survive rational analysis. The building in which the datacenter is located is the simplest, cheapest part of the design. Dividing it up into a bunch of inconveniently-sized rectangles solves nothing.
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