We got a chain of thunderstorms starting at 2:00 AM today and it looks to continue through the day. We picked up an inch of rain and the weather-guessers think we might get another inch.
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| My location at the red-x. Storms are traveling in from northwest toward southeast. |
The ducks are not happy that I didn't mix their dry, powdered feed (mash) with water. If I did, the inch of rain will turn it to soup.
I might do a little bit of carpentry today.
Woodchucks
I usually dispatch woodchucks with body-grip traps or the might .22LR (Long Rifle).
Yesterday, due to an unusual confluence of events, I found myself looking at a woodchuck from a range of 15 yards and I had a 5.56mm NATO rifle in my hands. I had 77 grain TMK ammo in the magazine.
It was enough gun. Bang-flop. A hole in the east end and a much larger hole in the west end.
Dialing back
I decided to drop back to running every third day just like I am lifting. I will off-set them so I will have Lifting-Running-Rest, repeat.
I had been aiming to run every-other day and lift every third day. That inevitably resulted in running and lifting happening on the same day about once a week.
Data Centers
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| Based on the area that lacks cooling units, I suspect this facility is only running at half-capacity. All images from Google. |
So, "B" over at Middle of the Right asked, "What caliber for AI?" in a recent post.
I decided to look into the issue.
The picture shown above is a small, 70,000 square-foot data center.
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| The power-switching yard that feeds it is approximately 800 feet away and feeds 138.00 kV underground to the facility. |
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| 8' by 20'. Ground mounted. |
Each unit appears to have a fan mounted in the southwest corner. There are two pads on the west end of each row that does not have a unit on it. There may be a utility panel standing where the northwest end of the unit would be when it is installed.
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| Weird spacing for mobile offices |
Another anomaly
Even a company that makes tin cans needs data storage and processing. Maybe back in the 1960s that meant one or two rooms with temperature and humidity control, but modern manufacturing and distribution has moved well beyond that.
ReplyDeleteIn the Carolinas, around a decade back, I put in the network interconnections at a new data center (DC) for a second-tier consumer+business bank; this DC was about double the size of the one in the photos. This was before "AI" or "Flock" were a real thing, so data centers weren't thought of as anything nefarious, this was just a bank calculating your usual daily checking balance updates and the like.
This +100k sq ft building had two guards per shift, one at the front desk to watch the cameras, one on "patrol" -- meaning 90% in the cool air of the data center, 10% taking a quick walk around the perimeter. These guards aren't the kind who willing go out in the wet heat, nor do they get paid enough to get shot at.
Not every DC is an AI DC.
Knock one bank DC offline and maybe your paycheck is late, or maybe they switch processing for the day over to the backup site then raise all the fees by a nickel to pay for the repairs.
The rooftop units are water chillers. The units at ground level on the building sides are typical reefer HVAC units.
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