Blogger Jokes Data Center Living Beats Noisy DC Apartment Life

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@AndyMasley Step aside Mr beast

@AndyMasley mostly $/sqft, and nowadays time to power is important (see eg Meta using tents). no disrespect to the great techs who staff data centers but think it's accurate to say the higher paid positions are at HQ writing ip.

Why would hyperscalers design the incredibly expensive places they want to run well and attract people with lots of technical talent and high salaries to be extremely physically uncomfortable to actually be inside?

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@AndyMasley You should try to find a data center that would let you do this (and make short form video content when inside it). Not even joking this would go viral.

“Stay with me inside a data center for a week!”

@AndyMasley Don’t Amazon run their DCs up to a temp of 85? You’re gonna be sweaty

@pteridoid Most data centers just don't make noises like this, I've been around a lot and inside one and almost all were completely silent, except for the low background hum of some heat exhaust fans

@AndyMasley Okay we gotta make this happen, incredible content

@AndyMasley You'd want noise cancelling headphones. I bet that high pitched whine and drone would give me headaches after a while.

@AndyMasley @pteridoid The data centres that I used to help build in the early 2000s did sound like a jet takeoff but the modern OCP-type ones are a lot quieter and now that we've "culturally" moved to whole room cooling rather than hot/cold aisles

@AndyMasley it might be worthwhile to round up some narratives from people who work in data centers. after all, if there were any negative health effects from living near a data center then the people working inside of them 8 hours a day should be much more negatively affected.

@AndyMasley @pteridoid But yes, if you are in there for more than a few minutes you will want noise cancelling headphones. Ear damage is a thing.

@AndyMasley https://x.com/robotson/status/2056146302883467446 it’s ya boi

@AndyMasley Your own cold aisle!

@AndyMasley The only hard part will probably be wifi. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to get working Internet inside one.

@pteridoid @AndyMasley Some servers used to have a high pitched whine. I think it was often the RAID drive sets. But there's not much spinning rust anymore, or really anything that moves, other than fans.

And they are delivering 48V dc to the rack, so AC conversion is getting centralized.

@AndyMasley Andy Masley-Mr. Beast YouTube colab on the docket I see

@AndyMasley hm. I'll admit I'm just imagining server rooms I've been in and scaling it up.

@AndyMasley You doing videos to counter all the silly claims using irl evidence would be great