Building and Operating Your Own Data Center: A Practical Guide from comma
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Summary
The article advocates for companies to build and operate their own data centers rather than relying on cloud services. It describes how the author's company, comma, has successfully run their own data center for years, hosting all their model training, metrics, and data. The piece explains the practical benefits of owning a data center, including cost savings, control, and reliability, and aims to inspire other businesses to consider this approach by sharing their implementation details and philosophy.
Key quotes
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At comma we've been running our own data center for years. All of our model training, metrics, and data live in our own data center in our own office.
Having your own data center is cool, and in this blog post I will describe how ours works, so you can be inspired to have your own data center too.
If your business relies on compute, and you run that compute in the cloud, you are putting a lot of trust in your cloud provider.
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