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Re:Missouri town fires half its city council over data cente... by array_key_first on Monday April 13, 2026 @07:19PM (#47759237)
A DC does not have a few hundred full time people on site 24/7, it's going to be less than a dozen. It takes much, much less people to run a data center than people think.
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Re:Missouri town fires half its city council over data cente... by uberduper on Monday April 13, 2026 @07:26PM (#47759297)
A dozen people couldn't handle the number of daily nvidia compute tray RMAs one of these datacenters produces.
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Re:Missouri town fires half its city council over data cente... by bdangubic on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:44PM (#47760644)
oh there is shipping & handling or just handling? :)
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Re:Missouri town fires half its city council over data cente... by uberduper on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:17AM (#47765987)
Well they're liquid cooled, so there's some extra handling required. Then there's the sky high failure rate.
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