Increase Datacenter Size

Balance New content Production & Recipes
Awesomelyodd (discord) [ideas] · 4 years ago

Hello all, Microsoft datacenter engineer here.
Love the game, and i have 2 suggestion for datacenters to be more accurate.
- Size increase
- Add new item in game: Networking Equipment
Size increase reason:
The ones in game can only hold up to 48 racks, whereas in real life 48 racks is just over 2 clusters in a single center. IRL our smallest Datacenter at my location has around 1200 racks, whereas our biggest is a building 1/4mi long and has more closer to 5-6000 racks.
Networking Equipment:
Servers on their own do not handle inbound and outbound networking traffic. So jamming a bunch of servers into a rack isn't going to do much for you. Servers function as either computing power, or storage. This is where networking equipment comes in. They are necessary for the Datacenter to actually be online (even if powered with servers), because without the switches, there is no way for your DC to talk to the outside world.
IRL there is at minimum 2 switches per rack (some racks have 3).

PTTG · 4 years ago

One "server" represents a wide assortment of equipment. Same way one potato represents a quarter ton of potatoes.

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