An Architecture for Modular Data Centers
Summary: Advocates using fully-populated, standardized shipping containers as the unit of purchase, deployment, and management for commodity server clusters to enable mass-manufacturing, rapid deployment, mobility, and simplified recycling. Leverages software redundancy to tolerate cheap, failure-prone hardware while addressing heat, power, communications, large-scale administration, and placement trade-offs to substantially cut cost and accelerate upgrades. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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