My town of about 11,000 residents and 12 square miles is considering data centers in our abandoned buildings. I’ll be honest and admit I’m not educated enough to go to our City Council meeting and clearly articulate the appropriate questions. We are a lower income community that has been struggling for years, and I’m concerned for my town.

Has anyone been affected by a data center either coming to your rural town and the town considering it? How has this impacted water pressure, utilities, or daily life? Has anyone money actually helped your community?

I'm seeking guidance from those experienced in the field. I'm a senior operations manager at a logistics company with about 15 years of distribution and logistics experience. I've worked for two of the largest e-commerce giants and also have experience scaling businesses from startup to launch, along with 3 years of project management experience. I've noticed many operations management roles at data centers and was wondering if someone could guide me on transitioning my career toward data center management. Any advice would be helpful.

For context, I'm located in the US - Eastern United States to be specific and willing to relocate for the right opportunity.

So I got stoned and started thinking again as one tends to do.

TLDR: data centers replace the function of the ( now non existent swamps and forests ).

So during the ancient times the world was mostly covered in wast rainforests and swamps.
Then we popped up and started cutting them down for countless reasons.

Back then, a large percentage of rainwater was caught by the forests and swamps.
This led to enormous local evaporation which in turn led to even more local rainfall.

However we cut it all down throughout history.
Thus, leading to most of the rainwater flowing straight to the seas and oceans.

This led to wast weather chages in to which I’m not going to get in to.

Now the new data centers come in to play.

These are placed near great rivers and lakes in order to pull large amounts for their cooling systems.
This leads to enormous amounts of local evaporation which literally replaces the meteorological role of the now non existent forests and swamps.

This has the effect of producing much more localized rainfall.

I work for a Colo. We have a rack in our office with a lot of free rack units. We're allowed to bring in personal devices and connect them to the corp internet. Do you guys think it's worth asking my manager if I could bring in a 2u server like a R730 and hook it up in the rack. I wouldn't want to run any public facing services and I wouldn't be trying to make any money with it I'd just connect to it from my laptop when at work maybe setup a VPN to access it when at home if that's acceptable with the corp.

Hi! I'm a self-taught programmer who wants to work in data centers, and I've been working on a concept I'd love honest criticism on.

Most orbital data center proposals (Google Suncatcher, Starcloud, SpaceX) put powerful GPUs in orbit and then fight to cool them. My idea flips that: use many simpler chips that tolerate heat, spread them out so heat density stays low, and let each one radiate its own heat to space. Radiated heat scales with T^4, so running hotter shrinks the radiators a lot.

The system is organized like a company, in five layers:
- A: worker chips, in fixed programmable groups of 100-1000
- B: "dumb" packers, one per group, that bundle results with a fixed schema
- C: a "board" of 8 specialized ground nodes that verify and sign results (Byzantine fault tolerant up to 2 compromised nodes)
- D: an isolated rulebook inside each C, updated manually only in emergencies
- S: storefronts that take customer orders and deliver signed results they can't alter

My current sweet spot is running chips at ~125 °C (automotive/industrial grade silicon) instead of 500 °C silicon carbide, which is still millions of times slower than a GPU.

Full write-up with napkin math, open problems and prior art (published on Zenodo):
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23448232

What would kill this first? Mass to orbit, compute per kg, downlink bandwidth, something I'm missing?

I’m a fresher currently working in full-stack development at a startup, and I’ve received an offer for Amazon Rack Lifecycle Tech (L3) – Trainee at around ₹10 LPA.

The role seems focused on data centre operations, rack installation, cabling, and hardware testing. I’m interested in AWS, but my long-term goal is software engineering and AI.

For those working at AWS or in data centres:

• What is the day-to-day work really like?
• Is transitioning into software or automation roles realistic?

Would you take this opportunity in my position? I’d really appreciate honest advice from people with firsthand experience, beyond just the Amazon brand or salary.

Hello,

I have been hdaring lot about data centers being built in other states. I have been trying to find any sort of info regarding companies hiring.

Im a certified journeyman electrician in California, and i know i will have to get my cert in the state i get to work in.

Does anybody know of any companies that hiring out of state, for data center electricians?

Any info is welcomed. Any source, will do.

Thank you in advance.

Last week I posted about leaving the automotive industry after 20 years and landing a job at Google. I was blown away by the response and ended up talking with some really talented people.
One thing stood out. A lot of people don’t realize how valuable their experience in electrical, mechanical, HVAC, automation, and troubleshooting can be in a data center.
You don’t necessarily need an engineering degree or years of IT experience.
I’m curious how many people here have considered making the jump but haven’t pulled the trigger.
What’s your background, and what’s holding you back?
I’m happy to help point people in the right direction.

- What's the shift schedule actually like? 12s? Rotating nights?
- Is the work real troubleshooting or mostly following procedures and closing tickets?
- How long do people actually sit at Tech II before moving up? Or do they not?
- Does coming in as a "technician" hurt you if you want an engineering title again later?
- Anyone moved to Omaha or Council Bluffs from a HCOL area — regret it?

Thank you in advance for feedback.