> Out of all the comments on numbers, SREs, and scaling, you get the response for meeting numbers with numbers!

>> $120K isn't going to cover the fully loaded costs of an SRE who can set up and run that.

> Literally this. I can do SRE on-prem and cloud, and my 50/30/20 budget break-even point (as in, needs and savings but no wants - so 70%) is $170k before taxes. Rent is astonishingly high right now, and the sort of mid-career professional you want to handle SRE for your single DC is going to take $150k in this market before fucking off to the first $200k job they get.

That's $120k per pod. Four pods per rack at 50kW.

What universe are we living in that a single SRE can't manage even a single rack for less than half a million in total comp?