[Karrot_Kream]

Oh wow that's fantastic! Are you referring to https://fcix.net/ ? Thanks so much for the tip. Do you know how much it costs to grab a dedicated box in the HE Fremont facility?

[holdenk]

So they don't do dedicated boxes (sadly), they rent by the rack (including 1gb of transit + 15A power). https://he.net/colocation.html has the info. If you just want a dedicated box that isn't drawing a lot of power I've probably got some room in my rack and we can chat (and I imagine some of the other BGP for fun group folks are in similar positions).

[Karrot_Kream]

Sure I'd be interested! Let me know if there's contact info on your site or some other method of contact. I'm fine with Email or Matrix.

[errcorrectcode]

Ah, blast from the past. HE brought us T-1's, T-3's, and IPv6 transit way back.

Equinix owns PAIX on 529 Bryant St. as SV8.

It's interesting how racks still aren't so much volume-, mass-, or network bandwidth-/transit-constrained, but power-constrained.

[walrus01]

It's very easy to run out of cumulative watts of grid power feed, cooling capacity and generator/UPS/power backup capacity in a facility before you run out of floor space in a datacenter.

Even with what is now a "small" 5kW thermal power budget per 44U cabinet, measuring 24 inches wide x 48 inches deep, you can easily exceed that 5kW long before you physically fill the cabinet with servers.

[merlyn]

Power in is directly heat out (that mechanical motion of fans twirling just isn't giving more than a rounding error).

You can only get so much cooling density. And loading up a rack can use a signifigant portion of cooling.

Its pretty easy now-a-days to get 18kW into a rack, which will require 5 tons of cooling. Ie. enough cooling to handle a 3,000 ft^2 house.