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0 pointsdkdk82834y ago0 comments

Onprem doesn’t get a lot of love these days but it’s significantly cheaper.

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pjdesno4y ago· 1 in thread

If you've got the data center for it. Otherwise it's great until you have to upgrade your AC, and punch a hole in the side of the building to get the new one brought in on a crane :-)

dkdk8283OP4y ago

I built and ran a 1mw data center for about 7 years, it can be a headache but you can be ahead of the curve if you buy a DC that’s being vacated by someone moving to the cloud.

I paid 400k to buy about 4m worth of equipment from the previous tenant. UPS, STS, busbar distribution, 3n paralleling generators and 20,000 gallons of diesel.

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