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I think I’m on the upper end of what’s normal in U.S. but also not super abnormal either — 1. Four lines on Google Fi is about $220 per month for “Unlimited”. 2. Comcast is $95 per…

Wow. As a side effect, this outage is handing Corey Quinn material for the next 4 years of AWS shitposting. No longer is NAT Gateway the prime target.

And yet TrueNAS is moving away from BSD towards … Debian!

A sandwich, bag of crisps and a drink for £5 is an actual deal. Sandwich alone in U.S. would be $10 and the “$15 Meal Deal” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

That’s because all of that hardware probably dates back to when Steve Jobs roamed the planet.

I work from Starlink regularly and it’s just fine for meetings and everything else I do. Meetings are usually under 10Mbps of downstream and 2Mbps upstream. It’s simply false you n…

Amazon is probably deploying in the range of 250,000 racks per year into AWS. That’s millions of square feet before you get into all the infrastructure around them so they’re power…

Building on grade is much cheaper. There is in general plenty of surface area on Planet Earth. Datacenters aren’t built next to Nordstrom. Theres just no reason to spend on enginee…

It’s true it costs money to then hopefully make it. :) Architecture, civil engineering, and other design and permitting fees can easily be 7–10% of the overall cost of smaller proj…

That’s not true, most hyperscalers and their datacenter building partners use Option 2.

Datacenters rarely get mothballed after 10 years, they’re usually 15-year depreciation schedules in terms of the building and the plant. Equipment within them like servers typicall…

I mean, you’re right, but when the alternative is all that investment and those construction jobs AND the post-commissioning operational jobs go to a different community and a diff…

It’s unusual to buy the land and take a gamble on its utility, at least whenever datacenter construction is involved. Purchasing parties are risk averse to this exact scenario and …

Building a datacenter typically employs thousands of people in the trades, often for hundreds or a thousand plus hours, per person, from the start of a big build to the campus bein…

AWS publicly stated I think in 2021 that the larger availability zones in US East 1 consisted of 17-18 datacenters each. It’s likely grown a lot since, and they recently announced …

Utah’s 40,000 acre datacenter proves it’s not absolutely at the upper end. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933687/u... Most hyperscalers now prefer to build lar…

It’s not like the author is a noob. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz In fact, he’s done several things that are truly hard, and has a well-deserved engineering reputation.…

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Paywall: https://archive.is/XXjph

Genoa was a big leap from Milan. Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment. Kudos to Lisa Su and the team.

In addition to mec1-az2 now AWS has also lost mec1-az3 rendering the region down, as many control planes rely on quorum. Also impact in Bahrain, with mes1-az2 power and network imp…

Just as a heads up to the author, some of the commits against Luxury Yacht aren’t attributed to a GitHub account because Git wasn’t configured to use an email that’s associated — h…

A million subscribers on Twitch?