Kai Ryssdal
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is an operational computer room.
The amount of energy coming into this building is enough to power a small town, thousands of homes.
Best guesses are that about a third of the energy that data centers use goes to keeping all these computers cool.
We're in the hot area of the room.
We're in the hot area of the room.
There's a hot aisle and cold aisle configuration, which is done for efficiency purposes.
There's a hot aisle and cold aisle configuration, which is done for efficiency purposes.
If we put you in the cold aisle, it'll be below 80 degrees.
If we put you in the cold aisle, it'll be below 80 degrees.
We keep the cold aisle around 75 degrees.
We keep the cold aisle around 75 degrees.
This is insanely loud.
This is insanely loud.
And it's just computers.
These are just all computers running right now.
So fundamentally, you're the landlord, right?
I mean, is that the analogy?