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Another hyperscaler buying my town's power allocation

Datacenter Talk by playersofia 2 replies 160 views
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2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001, I am furious. The rural cooperative here signed away 80 megawatts of address space—sorry, power address space—to a hyperscaler building training clusters. Legacy IP thinking from legacy IP people. They did not even dual-stack the community benefits; zero local jobs, just transformers and fences.

I run 2001:0db8:0000:0001::/64 worth of edge machines here. Now my expansion is NAT—sorry, no, I refuse to say that word. My address space for life is constrained.

Meeting with county commissioners is Thursday. Anyone organize against this before?

#2

How much power does 80 megawatts actually run?? Like how many houses is that!!

Also good luck with the meeting!!

#3

My nephew set this up for me but I know about power bills. The internet box at my office is on Contabo — https://contabo.com — and they wanted to raise rates last year. IT Support Vendor called it "market adjustments." Now I read the same thing happening to you but bigger.

80 megawatts sounds like enough to run this whole county twice over. The Commissioners should know that.

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