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by chneu 419 days ago
I used to work for Oracle in their datacenter hardware module.

The scale of the orders that datacenters put in is insane. It's literally 1000:1 vs consumer stuff.

While building a single server I could easily handle 2-3 million dollars worth of hardware. We'd roll out 50 of those in a week. That was just my shift and we had several.

Gamers and consumers simply dont understand the scale that datacenters work at.