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Re: Why choose 120 volts?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Sanders)
Tue May 26 16:37:18 2009

From: Ray Sanders <Ray.Sanders@VillageVoiceMedia.com>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090526202912.GA57626@pit.databus.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 13:34:41 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

So when one server fails, all the rest fail too? 

Sorting out holiday lighting is bad enough.... 

could you imagine having to go through rack after rack finding the one
"burned out" server?


On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:29 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote:
> Doesn't even need non-standard servers - just wire them all in series.
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:23:46PM -0500, Kurt Anderson wrote:
> > Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla datacenter.
> > Think of all the copper you will save...
> 
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