Post #2856661
2026-05-15 04:30 UTC
Replies (3)
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@seabass@social.seabass.systems 2026-05-15 06:32
@mast0d0nphan@beige.party @ana@starlite.rodeo I'd guess it's chiefly a ventilation issue. Given how stuffy the air inside them can be ordinarily, I can't imagine that cooling computers in them would be easy!
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@adrake@sfba.social 2026-05-15 08:03
@mast0d0nphan@beige.party @ana@starlite.rodeo there's nothing worth reusing in a mall. Data centers have racks of heavy equipment inside and generally heavy cooling setups on the roof, too. Mall construction isn't rated for that. Cheaper and less risk to demolish and build to spec than to retrofit. Nobody wants to fry millions of dollars in server hardware because the retrofitted mall roof leaked. The site is flat, but unless you get lucky it probably has none of the other things you'd want (like proximity to big power lines or network backbones).
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@patterfloof@meow.social 2026-05-15 10:46
@mast0d0nphan@beige.party @ana@starlite.rodeo probably cheaper & easier to build from scratch, rather than modifying existing buildings and also why they don't build vertically, instead of spreading out the slop box till its the size of Manhattan