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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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Fair enough, I didn’t realise they were so different from traditional DC’s.
They shouldn't be. One of the issue the sheer size and volume, they're being built based only on speculation not actual need (all the ssd/ram/gpu are sitting in warehouses waiting for these DC to be built — if they're fabricated at all). They're also being built where it's cheap, not where they would be needed (industrial and urban areas) just to save money, externalize costs, and avoid regulations.
They're not servers. It's just gpus. It's not really a data center, basically the same as bitcoin mining.
They're still servers, the focus is on the GPU side though. A single DGX B300 has 8 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 2 Xeon 6776P CPUs. And networking, RAM, storage. Consumes 14 kilowatts and looks like this
You COULD host a website on one if you wanted to. You'd be stupid to do it, but you could.