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by rarefied_tomato 1928 days ago
Was the building made from stacked shipping containers? Containers are such a budget-friendly and trendy structural building block these days. They even click with the software engineers - "Hey, it's like Docker".

Containers would seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to dissipating, rather than containing, heat. I hope improved thermal management and fire suppression designs can be implemented.

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OVH use a custom water cooling solution they claim enables these niche designs and increases rack density.

As another comment says, that density probably exacerbated the issue here.

I could be wrong, but I understood from other comments that only SBG1 used containers.