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[–] 158 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I still haven’t forgiven him for The Learning Company and Brøderbund.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    He really pumped and dumped Softkey/TLC on Mattel. From $4.2B in 1999 to selling the whole thing off for $27.3M in 2000. I wouldn't be surprised if this is another one of his "ride the valuation wave" schemes.

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  • [–] 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Don't ask what a data center can do for you, ask what YOU can do for a data center

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  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    For anyone curious, Manhattan is just under 23 square miles (59 square kilometers)

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  • [–] [S] 53 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Which is roughly

    10971 football fields

    3933333 parking spots

    14640199 king size beds

    5624404194 iPhone 12s or

    7994579946 chocolate bars

    #AnythingButMetric #Im32DonutsTall

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    The biggest standard rack I could find has the dimensions of 19 inches wide, 90 inches tall, 47.2 inches deep. Height isn't super important for floor usage, so a rack takes up 896.8 square inches or 74.73 6.2 square feet. A 4U server chassis holds roughly 10 drives, and can fit 12 chasses in a 48U rack.

    This datacenter can hold a maximum of 8,580,264 130,398,967 racks holding 1,029,631,680 15,647,876,040 drives. Assuming 4TiB drives, that's a total of 3.84 68.82 Zebibytes of data. The entirety of the Internet has roughly 148.23 Zebibytes.

    This new, smaller datacenter will hold approximately 2.56% 46.43% of all the data in the world.

    Edited for accuracy

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There are 4U server cases that hold 77 3.5” hard drives, and you could rig up empty cases with NAND of various forms and get even more density, if you could keep cooling under control.

    Also, most datacenters will not use 4TB disks, you would use giant 20TB enterprise disks (for spinning rust) or 8TB enterprise SAS or nVME drives. You will lose some of that capacity to redundancy though, as RAID and region replication takes place.

    So total capacity, minus disk first losses (so *0.85 as a rule of thumb) and then divide by the redundancy (probably / 3)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Realistically there's going to be a mixture of cpu compute, gpu compute, storage, and general purpose. I feel like 10 drives per chassis is a decent average, and I intentionally used 4TiB to illustrate this truly absurd proposal.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I hope he loses his wealth for this.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    Live in the data center you fucking cock

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I hope the Mormons tear him limb from limb

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I grew up Mormon and have family in Utah. From what I’ve experienced with our current leader, their morals are all expendable for politics. The multiple affairs and way he talks about women should’ve been enough for them based on their beliefs but they still love him.

    They will do the same here. As long as rich people say it’s good, they’ll destroy their environment for them in the spirit of “prosperity”.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Fair but they used to be violent AF and tribal. Weird because the Department of War just snubbed them by leaving them off the list of recognized “Christian” sects

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    Eat shit, Kevin.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If the US had a long term vision and totally embraced renewable energy, it wouldn't have this problem.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago*

    They shouldn't even be letting him breath. The debate should be do billionaires deserve to live. Fuck their data centers. Exterminate the enemy.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    I hope he has a long healthy life being poor enough to barely survive.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    How much land could the public possibly need? You already have one Manhattan!

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Utah doesn't, though, and that's where he's proposing building it.

    I'm actually slightly surprised that there's still any part of Utah and non-Vegas Strip Nevada NOT owned by the Mormon church left tbh..

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Utah has lost more than you think, they just have the whole system rigged to their advantage and a good chunk of the populace willing to do anything for them. I wish they all realized how much these Christians in this movement hate them though. If they actually were to succeed in bringing themselves of any other targets they would go after Mormons instantly

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Kevin, if you shrank it to 90% the size of a normal penis you could make use of all that extra room in your underwear for it.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    One of the most obnoxious, punch-worthy pieces of human filth alive on the planet today. And that's really saying something cuz he's got some serious competition.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    We measuring land area in "Manhattans" now?

    Anything but metric!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    How many Mahattans to one Wales?

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    That seems wrong to me. Manhattan is 0.28% the size of Wales.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We need to stop giving this cunt attention or reaction. Let him fade away in a bucket of piss.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Utah is under a severe drought and is currently on fire. But yeah sure, let’s build a data center the size of manhattan that will use as much water and electricity as the whole fucking state.

    I’m gna laugh when these data centers get taken out by fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Because, you know, data centers are basically indestructible.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    As a Canadian, I'm sorry for this cuntholio.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Ah yes let's continue to build water-hungry infrastructure in states like Arizona and Utah where the water just flows oh so freely. Maybe we can see if we can get data centre induced subsidence to make Salt Lake City further below sea level than New Orleans! Climate change challenge - who will win? Kevin O'Shetbag can host it.

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