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0 pointspacketslave2y ago0 comments

A non-water fire suppression system for a 300,000+ square feet warehouse-scale datacenter would be incredibly expensive.

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Would it be as expensive as replacing 300,000+ square feet of servers?

People who aren't me get paid to do that kind of math when designing datacenters. Presumably there's a break-even point.

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0 pointspacketslave2y ago0 comments

A non-water fire suppression system for a 300,000+ square feet warehouse-scale datacenter would be incredibly expensive.

Would it be as expensive as replacing 300,000+ square feet of servers?

People who aren't me get paid to do that kind of math when designing datacenters. Presumably there's a break-even point.

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