The cooling fans of the emerging Tier 1 provider data centers in 1996 operated at a frequency that defined an era—a constant, mid-range mechanical drone that masked the high-pitched whine of high-density switching silicon. Inside these climate-controlled environments, the very architecture of ou...
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