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Microsoft data centre in a 40-foot container (techrepublic.com)
2 points by hackandthink on April 29, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Google did this back in the 00s and concluded that the economics didn't work among other factors. Not sure the economics have changed enough in the meantime - you would want to be deploying 1000s of them for the ROI involved.

Doing any type of work in the containers is also painful.

Personally I really like the idea of communities having something like this alongside an electricity substation, renewable energy generation and other utilities but it's not a concept that has received any traction outside a handful of communities interested in being self reliant.


Building hyperscale datacenters with containers != building edge cloud with containers.




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