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Re:What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Server... by dylan604 on Saturday April 20, 2024 @12:48PM (#40098664)
Do these solid floor racks still have troughs between the racks for flooding?
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Re:What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Server... by wmf on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:24PM (#40098947)
Not that I've seen. It's just a concrete slab.
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Re:What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Server... by ytjohn on Sunday April 21, 2024 @08:51AM (#40105352)
Datacenters I've been in that were built with "no raised floors" and flooding in mind do have a "raised floor", but it just happens to be solid concrete. This is very much the same as a warehouse or factory floor. It's built several feet higher than the surrounding parking lot, so that everything is level with loading docks.

If you're talking in-building flooding, not much going on there other than the racks themselves keep the equipment off the floor. All power is ran from overhead. A lot of modern "rack groups" (OCS, TSCIF, etc) have water limited water protection in mind.

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