Are you clueless? $500k for 7 racks of space? Equinix spends $25k per rack to build one of their datacenters. That is less than half of what this box is going to cost per rack AND that $25k includes the real estate. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. FYI - datacenters will always be a depreciating asset from an accounting perspective. The only fundamental change that blackbox will make is to increase the cost to the user. This thing is a NOT a new idea and if it was such a great one it would have been on the market long ago as markets in general gravitate towards efficiency and this is clearly NOT an efficient solution in terms of cost or scale. Perhaps it may be in cooling but who cares because 7 racks worth of computers is not enough space for most companies, period. Additionally, if this box consumes 105kw of power (assuming 10kw per rack via 2X 208v 30amp and the half that much for cooling), what do you plug it into? What type of redundacy is built in? are there 2 generators in this? are there two HVAC systems?
This may have some use for a national govt agency like FEMA during their emergency operations but it definitely has no fit in an enterprise.
Just for fun let's hold onto your prediction for a couple of years and see where we are.
J Powers,
Are you referring to Carl's prediction? I believe so but am not certain. In a couple of years rackable systems may have 50kw racks...they have a 25kw unit now. I would think running chilled water to the racks is going to be the way things end up going....back to the old school ways of mainframes. Having said that, if these blackboxes had some significant cost advantage they may work but as they're positioned now they just don't scale.
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