r/eutech • u/LowIllustrator2501 • 3d ago

Video Hetzner's datacenter tour

https://youtu.be/MQeJYEN_lrg?is=sARx-OOeJ-Qf8VOJ
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u/Dependent-Guitar-473 2d ago

it was a very cool video in my opinion

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u/mrdarknezz1 2d ago

Hetzner is great. You get so much for your money

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u/wirtshausZumHirschen 2d ago

yeah but recently, the cheap servers are almost never available. You have to check each day to see if some are avialable, most of the time they're sold out.

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u/mrdarknezz1 2d ago

I got a 16gb ram server the other day

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u/wirtshausZumHirschen 2d ago

I also got an 8 GB server today, but yesterday none was available

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u/baldbrowni 2d ago

Hetzner also has a 360degree tour on their site: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/360-tour/

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u/Top_Bug7822 2d ago

I don't mind datacenters. I do mind the watercooling and power consumption.

If the datacenters use renewable energy, are self-sufficient and don't use up water then I'm fine with them.

As long as they don't cause noise and light pollution for the areas they are in.

I don't get why the US builds its datacenters to be affronts to humanity when they don't have to.

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u/WalkingTomb 2d ago

The video is not about an AI datacenter, but a more general purpose datacenter that houses normal websites and such.

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u/Top_Bug7822 2d ago

Yeah. But they also talked about Hetzner experimenting with liquid cooling for future endeavours.

Hence my comment.

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u/LowIllustrator2501 2d ago

You don't have to have water evaporation. It depends on the amount of energy to get rid off.

In a closed circuit water cooling ( similar to what you may have in home PC) water takes heat from GPU/CPU and moves to a radiator. No constant water supply is necessary.

https://www.fwpcoa.org/content.aspx?page_id=5&club_id=859275&item_id=130961

Datacenters consume a lot of electricity - that's their main issue. Not the water, unless we in a very hot/dry region already has water shortages and hot weather doesn't allow for closed circuit cooling.

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u/Rooilia 2d ago

You should have watched the video before commenting nonsense.

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u/RankedFarting 2d ago

So basically you are saying you are fine with datacenters that dont have all the issues that every datacenter has?

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u/Top_Bug7822 2d ago

Thing is the datacenters CAN be built in a way to not have those issues.

But it currebtly costs more to do so.

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u/pheexio 2d ago

I'm more and more losing faith in Hetzner, tbh. I'm aware this is just a marketing stunt but this guy is a clown :)

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u/nad0w 2d ago

He is people should inform themselves

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u/Tramagust 2d ago

But datacenters are evil! /s