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Comment by jerdfelt

These are farms of cheap Linux boxes.

They go out of their way to design and manufacture their own motherboards and equipment[1] to reduce their capital and operational expenses.

While the motherboard and enclosures are probably custom made, the components inside (CPU, memory, etc) are all "commodity".

[1] http://www.opencompute.org/

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