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0 pointsdeepGem3mo ago0 comments

This is a huge one. What Musk is looking for is freedom from land acquisition. Everything else is an engineering and physics problem that he will somehow solve. The land acquisition problem is out of his hands and he doesn't want to deal with politicians. He learned from building out the Memphis DC.

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markhahn3mo ago

Maybe, but I'm skeptical, because current DCs are not designed to minimize footprint. Has anyone even built a two-story DC? Obviously cooling is always an issue, but not, directly, land.

Now that I think of it, a big hydro dam would be perfect: power and cooling in one place.

mbushey3mo ago

> Has anyone even built a two-story DC?

Downtown Los Angeles: The One Wilshire building, which is the worlds most connected building. There are over twenty floors of data centers. I used Corporate Colo which was a block or two away. That building had at least 10 floors of Data Centers.

reverius423mo ago

I think Downtown Seattle has a bunch too (including near Amazon campus). I just looked up one random one and they have about half the total reported building square footage of a 10-story building used for a datacenter: https://www.datacenters.com/equinix-se3-seattle

lambdaone3mo ago

Multistory DCs are commonplace in major cities.

bigfatkitten3mo ago

> Has anyone even built a two-story DC?

Every DC I’ve been in (probably around 20 in total) has been multi storey.

deepGemOP3mo ago

Skepticism is valid. The environmentalists came after dams too.

EdwardDiego3mo ago

So freedom from law and regulation?

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blactuary3mo ago

He "learned" by illegally poisoning black people

> an engineering and physics problem that he will somehow solve

no he won't

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markhahn3mo ago

Maybe, but I'm skeptical, because current DCs are not designed to minimize footprint. Has anyone even built a two-story DC? Obviously cooling is always an issue, but not, directly, land.

Now that I think of it, a big hydro dam would be perfect: power and cooling in one place.

mbushey3mo ago

> Has anyone even built a two-story DC?

reverius423mo ago

lambdaone3mo ago

Multistory DCs are commonplace in major cities.

bigfatkitten3mo ago

> Has anyone even built a two-story DC?

Every DC I’ve been in (probably around 20 in total) has been multi storey.

deepGemOP3mo ago

Skepticism is valid. The environmentalists came after dams too.

EdwardDiego3mo ago