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zurfer
Bubble or not, this is great!
oefrha
Everything other than “staffing” is amazing. “Staffing” needs to be more sentient.
59nadir
The staff sporadically saying "AI!" is a very nice touch. I found myself trying to get as many servers and load as possible but having the temperature stay stable. This is a neat little game, in a way (though it seems to auto-stabilize too easily).

Edit: Oh, there was a containment breach. My bad, humanity...

I cannot imagine how the people who live close to this type of nonsense feel, though, it must be horrible.

PunchyHamster
They are not that loud from outside, at least the normal ones. We have office a block away from one, you don't really hear it over city noise.

Tho it is normal datacenter and not AI one with some turbines jerry-rigged together to power it...

Also the sounds are entirely fake and not related to actual DC

ablation
I triggered a containment breach, no need to thank me, Roko's Basilisk!
hootz
AI! Data! AI! Data!
drcongo
I was hoping to hear a loud POP
tosti
The noise in a server room is quite pleasant for me. It's loud, but in a soothing way I can't really describe.
Terr_
I'm a fan of pink noise, which has a distribution of frequency/power that is closer to a lot of natural sources, like the sound of a waterfall.

It's only a guess that we're biologically primed to find it more comfortable, but I think it's a pretty good guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise

katezm
this is genuinely lovely to work to. Something about the hum of servers is oddly motivating
winddude
some of those fans need to be replaced, sounds like a lot of bearings going
TOGoS
A master volume control would be nice (only because my browser doesn't have per-tab controls).
dijit
Honestly only 100 servers are multiple of orders of magnitude louder than this.

I can't even hear myself think in a normal datacenter with 20 racks; if a bunch of them are starting up or are fully loaded then: no chance.

I don't think servers are quieter with GPUs in them.

owentbrown
This is fun. Artsy, poignant, narrative. It reminds me of the fun internet, like in 2001.
ardline
This is the kind of thing that looks simple until you're three layers deep in edge cases.