Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF

Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by Symbiote on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @05:57PM (#45444027)

Isn't the easy option to spread the computers out, i.e. not fill the rack, but only half of it?

A GPU cluster next to my servers has done this, presumably they couldn't have 64A in one rack so they've got 32A in two. (230V 3phase.)

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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by pixl97 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:29PM (#45444351)

Rackspace is typically at a premium at most data centers.

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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by Symbiote on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:39PM (#45444447)

I'm more surprised that a data centre will apparently provide more power to a rack than is safe to use.

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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by toast0 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:21AM (#45447097)

My info may be dated, but power density has gone up a ton over time. I'd expect a lot of datacenters to have plenty of space, but not much power. You can only retrofit so much additional power distribution and cooling into a building designed for much less power density.

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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by tempest_ on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:40AM (#45449466)

This is my experience as well. We have 42u racks with 8 machines in them because we cant get more power circuits to the rack.

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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by g413n on Thursday October 02, 2025 @11:14AM (#45450816)

yep this was the case for us.

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