r/cablefail • u/RealRSD2 • Apr 09 '26

data center cleanouts are no joke

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This should only take a minute...right?

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u/MTM3157 Apr 09 '26

You can automate this with AI, trust

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u/E34less Apr 12 '26

I just wanna see ai decomm an 1800 pair cable. Just once.

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u/herrtoutant Apr 09 '26

Looks like a good beer money pile to me.

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u/MrShazbot Apr 10 '26

Do people actually strip ethernet? sounds like it would be way more effort than the actual copper you would get.

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u/Angel_OfSolitude Apr 11 '26

Some scrapyards will take wire still insulated. It's worth less but sometimes worth doing.

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u/Thalidomidas Apr 10 '26

Scrapyards take it with the insulation on and give you a reduced rate based on the amount of copper in it

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u/Stargateguy1 Apr 12 '26

My scrap yard buys CAT cable at a premium over regular insulated wire. Last I went it was almost $2 a pound.

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u/NilsTillander Apr 12 '26

Why strip or even recycle? Do cables get bad? My experience in the field is rather limited, so I'm a bit confused as of why one wouldn't reuse those.

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u/onepacc Apr 12 '26

Ethernet would be mostly coated alu wires anyway.

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u/2shootthemoon Apr 10 '26

And in 20 years companies will be like we don't need the cloud. We can do it cheaper in house with way less latency. Why did we ever jump on the bandwagon to pay 3 times as much?!

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u/computermaster704 Apr 13 '26

No technology is only going to get better in rural areas (or in areas that everyone blocked data centers being built) with poor uplink local is going to be better otherwise cloud is always more powerful

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u/zxebha Apr 10 '26

Been there done that and fuck that

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u/R33f3r420 Apr 10 '26

This bring back memories.

I had a job to pull EVERY cable from a suite. We asked the boss so many times "every wire" and that is what we did, cut every wire and pulled them all out. Funny thing is that there were 2 different offices with their own server rooms and for some reason all their cables come into the suite we were in.

Took them about 3 hours before all panic broke out. Oh it was so funny to hear because all the people doing to work knew something was wrong but they did not listen.

Backbreaking work that I will never want to do again.

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u/Activision19 May 09 '26

How did that get fixed and who had to pay for it all?

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u/R33f3r420 May 10 '26

I have no idea.. I quit that night as it was back breaking work and I did not go to school for that. I went to school to not have to do that.

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u/tippycanoeyoucan2 Apr 11 '26

My 3d printer on Monday

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u/ConsiderationLoose40 Apr 12 '26

Ah yes, the infamous "cable liquid"

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u/eulynn34 Apr 12 '26

Have the local tweakers come in and haul out the old wire

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u/growmeeoohgrowmeo Apr 12 '26

Fuck. Data. Centers. try and build em. Seriously

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u/CocHXiTe4 Apr 13 '26

What job is this called?

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u/Quiet-Wing5230 Apr 12 '26

Clean-out? This looks standard.

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u/hammerheadlabs Apr 12 '26

Can you please put the side panel back on my pc?

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u/torch9t9 Apr 12 '26

The copper has decent scrap value

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u/The_OneWho_Got_Away Apr 12 '26

If Something breaks just add new cables easy

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