[Kenji]

They didn’t plan for ventilation for all the hardware, so they cooled the server room with a garbage can full of ice!

In the video, he said they had no money for it, but that is quite possibly the most expensive way to cool a server.

[Fripplebubby]

Sounds like they had a restaurant-grade ice maker already, so it may not have been any further sunk cost to get the ice. Probably lost some of that in electricity and water bills!

[Kenji]

I think you underestimate how much energy it takes to cool down and freeze water and how inefficient it is to simply place that near the server.

[reitoei]

Second-hand story from 20 years ago man... who cares?

[Kenji]

Me. Someone is wrong on the internet and I am right!

Yes, that was a joke ;)