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Re:Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–... by jabberwhookie on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @05:32PM (#46063111)
> Each rack can hold up to 96 Mac minis,

Sounds like 2 per 1U to me. I think it's power efficiency that limits filling a rack with typical 1U servers in most plans. The power efficiency here is probably not really impressive enough given so many power units, etc.

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Re:Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–... by mikepurvis on Thursday November 27, 2025 @10:02AM (#46069872)
Yeah I'm a bit confused on that. In the picture, each row is definitely taller than the power strip, plus 1U is 44.45mm in height, whereas the current-gen Mac Mini is 50mm high.

I'm pretty sure the drawers are 2U, but given that I don't know how they would get 96 nodes in a standard 42U rack.

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