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Animatslast Saturday at 9:05 PM0 repliesview on HN

Megawatt racks are coming.[1][2] 10x or 20x more than current practice. There is a lot of plumbing involved. See [2] for more than you really want to know about the plumbing. "You got 400 gallons per minute?" for his rack, the sales rep asks. He's saying that you need to start planning for power and coolant flow far beyond what data center planners previously considered.

That kind of energy density is scary.

[1] https://blog.se.com/datacenter/2025/10/16/the-1-mw-ai-it-rac...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ssp1t-g_wM