I think it's most likely testing the waters for a real offering. It's not that weird. Many colo data centers already have policies about hosting laptops because it's already something that happens. It just isn't common and usually isn't for hosting servers.
If the battery in the laptop is still good, it comes with it's own UPS. My MBPs haven't had an ethernet port in a minute, so do you have to supply your own adapters as well??? You could fit ~15 MBPs on their edge in 9RUs. That'd be an interesting looking rack. Not quite a blade chassis. It'd be rather boring looking as there's no blinky-blinkies
If you got creative with cable management you might be able to double up front and rear. It would probably be a PITA to manage but you could probably get some halfway decent density
Looks like they were proposing supplying usb Ethernet adapters, which doesn’t seem crazy, they’re cheap.
I think it's most likely testing the waters for a real offering. It's not that weird. Many colo data centers already have policies about hosting laptops because it's already something that happens. It just isn't common and usually isn't for hosting servers.
If the battery in the laptop is still good, it comes with it's own UPS. My MBPs haven't had an ethernet port in a minute, so do you have to supply your own adapters as well??? You could fit ~15 MBPs on their edge in 9RUs. That'd be an interesting looking rack. Not quite a blade chassis. It'd be rather boring looking as there's no blinky-blinkies
If you got creative with cable management you might be able to double up front and rear. It would probably be a PITA to manage but you could probably get some halfway decent density
Looks like they were proposing supplying usb Ethernet adapters, which doesn’t seem crazy, they’re cheap.
Putting a UPS in a rack is a prosumer/corporate IT thing, it’s not done in real datacenters.
They typically have their own UPS in another room and multiple power lanes. And it’s going to be much more reliable than a laptop battery.
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> You could fit ~15 MBPs
15 MBP x €7 = €105 for 9RU with power and network. Not in a million years.
I would like to put my Raspberry Pi Pico in colocation, would it work?
There are a number of places that colocate normal Raspberry Pi.
https://lowendbox.com/blog/little-machines-in-big-datacenter...
I am sure that some of them either already colocate Pico ones too, or are willing to do so if asked.