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Comment · 8 years ago
"The Phase 2 datacenter can house 27.6 petabytes of data."
Assuming you're using 15TB as one LoC unit, then about 1,800 LoCs.
Comment · 8 years ago
They did a mini-version in the US a few years ago, this one is 4x the size and 100x the compute
Comment · 8 years ago
It's a fail-in-place data center. If a hard disk fails, you don't do anything. They used to replace telephony equipment all the time too, now it's just a locked room in a building. This is pushing data centers to be more hands-off.
Comment · 8 years ago
Putting in on/in a boat or near the coast might get you the seawater for cooling, but the project lists a few other big benefits like oxygen-free atmosphere, constant temperatures year-round, and ease of deployment.
Assuming you're using 15TB as one LoC unit, then about 1,800 LoCs.