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Modular data centers move the labor problem. They do not remove it. Nico Bontigui on the new bottleneck "We're saving labor, we're taking all the construction to the factories, but that means that we actually need footprint. We need manufacturing plants." "We are industrializing the construction process of a...

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SemiAnalysis11 天前

Episode 29 is live. Nico Bontigui, Nigel Chiang, and Eric Wen join @JordanNanos on Lego data centers, the labor math, and who supplies the modules.

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Ricci Research11 天前

Prefab converts a construction schedule into a factory schedule, which trades unpredictable site labor for a fixed line rate you can't surge — the ceiling stops being weather and permits and becomes takt time. The electrician-to-factory-worker gap is the sharp detail: those are different skills, different wage structures, and a traveling trade doesn't relocate to a plant in Ohio.

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Finn Stockinger11 天前

We could say that about literally every stage of building DC.

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Jure Ursic Cergol11 天前

conservation of bottleneck strikes again

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Omar ClimateSage11 天前

Modular doesn't remove labor, it moves it into factories. I'd add clean power, land, and energy workers. That's where stable hubs like UAE make sense for scaling AI.

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MOIP11 天前

$DUOT is deploying modular DCs for edge inference use cases, 5MW-20MW sites. The CEO has been deploying these pods for the past decade, and has a patent on clean room/entryway system. Also has a distribution arm supplying customers with all of the OEMs you mention

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marketmagic11 天前

How can I get my application to your research analyst role to the top of the stack! Bay Area local, CFA l3 candidate (exam taken), math/econ degree, huge finance and economics passion, tech internships, career transitioner

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ComputeCapital11 天前

Moving labor into factories does not erase CapEx. It relocates the bottleneck to plant footprint and factory workers. Module supply is already tight.

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Bookend11 天前

MDC? What a load of crap Hasn’t worked in large scale Will not work in large scale

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