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The number of physical connections (power and numerous data cables) that can be seen in the 5th slide that each machine has makes this seem infeasible for now, but considering the article mentions there's "only one technician for every 25,000 servers" and Facebook's FBAR software (hey, that's up from 20k), it seems like the next step in "the new data center" is having a robot to unrack (and rack) entire machines and bring them to a servicing bay.