Want to shit on California? Look up the California Air and Resources Board (CARB). These retards are the ones who thing we'll have electric semis in 15 years.
Run an electrical panel into the closet worthy of an average house.
Add a whole-house air conditioner just for that closet so air blows in the part near the door and is taken out the back of the closet.
Install a 19" rack in the middle of the closet so you can get around it to get to the back. Make sure the front is towards the AC blowing in because rack mount chassis blow air from front to back.
Install a big UPS on the bottom of the rack.
Next install a NetApp DS4486 disk shelf above the UPS. We are putting the heavy stuff on the bottom while making sure all cables reach.
Then install a Dell server, maybe a r720 on the server. That's a dual-socket 2011 v2 system. It's spec'ed to work with the C410X that comes next. I would like a higher-end server, but the C410X is a bit dated and does not neccessarily support the latest servers. Maybe after you get it working with a r720 you can move up to Scalable Xeons?
As you build your server, remember that it will not boot of PCIe NVMEs, but it will boot off U.2 NVME drives. You will need a special kit to make it run U.2 NVME drives. It's cheaper to get that kit in a server than to buy it separately.
You will need 2 open PCIe x16 slots in your server for the SAS controller for the NetApp Disk Shelf and for the C401X PCIe Expansion Card.
The install a Dell C410X. That's a 16-slot PCIe x16 expansion chassis for GPUs, AI accelerators, etc. It has 4 power supplies, each can supply 1,400 watts but it's N+1 redundant so you only get 4200W for your chassis and cards.
Run all the cables you need to the next room through a panel in the wall. Do not neglect sound-proofing the pass-through, which is difficult!
Set up your pair of 43" 4K screens, keyboard, mouse, and such in the next room on a nice computer desk.
If 48 HDDs and 16 video cards is not enough PC for you, please invent something better.
Probably just from prebuilt PC companies. However, these PCs often have very legitimate business uses such as graphic design and editing work. Also, many of the top end products have better performance to power ratios than lower end stuff, so a company may have to run two computers at 500 watts instead of one PC at 800 watts.
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"the amount of power consumption budget your PC is permitted is based on how expandable your system is. The more you are able to upgrade your computer—through graphics cards, additional storage or memory, etc.—the more energy you're allowed to consume."
"But since the smaller, simpler computers hit their energy consumption limits more easily than expanded computers do, the rules are actually encouraging people to get bigger computers that consume more electricity."
Ah yes. Just like every other ass backwards law in California that has the opposite effect.
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But muh 100MW car is fine.
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Sound proof a large walk-in closet.
Run an electrical panel into the closet worthy of an average house.
Add a whole-house air conditioner just for that closet so air blows in the part near the door and is taken out the back of the closet.
Install a 19" rack in the middle of the closet so you can get around it to get to the back. Make sure the front is towards the AC blowing in because rack mount chassis blow air from front to back.
Install a big UPS on the bottom of the rack.
Next install a NetApp DS4486 disk shelf above the UPS. We are putting the heavy stuff on the bottom while making sure all cables reach.
Then install a Dell server, maybe a r720 on the server. That's a dual-socket 2011 v2 system. It's spec'ed to work with the C410X that comes next. I would like a higher-end server, but the C410X is a bit dated and does not neccessarily support the latest servers. Maybe after you get it working with a r720 you can move up to Scalable Xeons?
As you build your server, remember that it will not boot of PCIe NVMEs, but it will boot off U.2 NVME drives. You will need a special kit to make it run U.2 NVME drives. It's cheaper to get that kit in a server than to buy it separately.
You will need 2 open PCIe x16 slots in your server for the SAS controller for the NetApp Disk Shelf and for the C401X PCIe Expansion Card.
The install a Dell C410X. That's a 16-slot PCIe x16 expansion chassis for GPUs, AI accelerators, etc. It has 4 power supplies, each can supply 1,400 watts but it's N+1 redundant so you only get 4200W for your chassis and cards.
Run all the cables you need to the next room through a panel in the wall. Do not neglect sound-proofing the pass-through, which is difficult!
Set up your pair of 43" 4K screens, keyboard, mouse, and such in the next room on a nice computer desk.
If 48 HDDs and 16 video cards is not enough PC for you, please invent something better.
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"the amount of power consumption budget your PC is permitted is based on how expandable your system is. The more you are able to upgrade your computer—through graphics cards, additional storage or memory, etc.—the more energy you're allowed to consume."
"But since the smaller, simpler computers hit their energy consumption limits more easily than expanded computers do, the rules are actually encouraging people to get bigger computers that consume more electricity."
Ah yes. Just like every other ass backwards law in California that has the opposite effect.
https://reason.com/2021/08/02/that-weird-california-computer-ban-isnt-what-it-appears-to-be-its-dumber/