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by riferguson 6513 days ago
It's not clear from the video, but the utility power number probably includes environmental stuff like cooling and lights. Just dividing one number by the other isn't going to give you the size of the power supply for each machine.
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Environmental control is one of the largest power sucks of a data center. It's part of why data center space is so expensive per square foot.