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Avicebronyesterday at 12:33 AM4 repliesview on HN

Has anyone tried to run a data center as a Co-Op?


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fc417fc802yesterday at 6:59 AM

A data center or a cloud? It's not difficult to find a good data center to colo at. The problem is then you have to bring your own hardware, technicians, and sysadmins.

However, if you don't trust cloud providers or inference providers for whatever reason then you probably aren't going to be excited to enter a co-op model where you're still effectively renting access to hardware that you don't directly own. There are already reasonably priced options to rent bare metal from a cloud provider.

The only way I see it working is if it's a bunch of medium to large sized businesses getting together to be able to rent out the spare capacity on hardware that they physically control. So an AWS equivalent where each rack is owned by a different company and retail VMs migrate between them transparently. But I question the overall economics of such an arrangement.

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orbifoldyesterday at 2:20 AM

I was thinking that would be great, too. What would be the equivalent for the property developer: one gpu server is 450k.

rzerowanyesterday at 12:46 AM

Would actually be a good biz model for the Colo facilities that keep shutting down as everyone moves to the big cloud providers.Now if they can get their hands on enough GPUs and RAM.

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rasuryesterday at 6:58 AM

coopcloud.tech ?