Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one?

With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed deployment times, even for infrastructure prefabricated for AI training. Vertiv is the latest to step forward with new ready-made modular systems that it claims offer bit barn operators an …

[ecofeco]

That's nice

But HP was doing this 20 years ago.

That said, this news is still worth reporting as more vendors to choose from is always good.

[elsergiovolador]

Jokes

The HER1 facility, which was built in 12 months, has 19 racks per data hall with 5.15 kW per rack on average, and has secured a 10 MW grid connection so it is expandable and more prefabricated modules can be added as needed. We're told it runs on 100 percent renewable energy.

Is this serious?

Datacentre needs connection to two _separate_ and independent grids at least and it needs it own power generation system on backup.

With just one connection, that's not a datacentre, but a shed with computers.

LOL

[CapeCarl]

The Sun no longer shines

Perhaps in 2008, while supporting a trading floor in Manhattan, I got to walk thru a Sun datacenter-in-a-box near Grand Central.

Not sure if they ever sold any.

[Richard Gray 1]

Data center in a shipping container? So last century

I used to work for a company that had a branch office with it's datacenter (server room) in a shipping container.

Whenever there was a hurricane warning, they would shutdown, disconnect the power and networks, load it onto a truck and move it somewhere safer.

Yes it cause disruption but was still cheaper than having to refit out all the servers and networking a couple of times a year.

[ecarlseen]

Schneider Electric?

Based on Schneider's reputation the equipment will fail within three years, assuming it works out of the box.