“The trucks back ‘em in, rack ‘em, and stack ‘em,” Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie told CNET News. And the containers remain sealed, Ozzie said. Once a certain number of servers in the container have failed, it will be pulled out and sent back to the manufacturer and a new container loaded in.
It’s just one way that Microsoft is trying to cope in a world where it adds roughly 10,000 servers a month.
Its hard to comprehend the scale that they are talking about here. I’ve read several articles about shipping containers as data centers but imagining the shipping container as the basic unit of the data center, the part that you will relpace, is staggering.
