Aw come on! It’s a modular “plederhosen” supercomputer, right in time for Oktoberfest! Very fashionable … can’t wait to see Vera Rubin sporting one of those in 2026 (ahem, eh-eh-eh!).

But yes, hopefully they commission local artists or schoolchildren to paint something inspirational over this structure that is currently reminiscent of the transshipment facility at a container seaport terminal (very useful, but not so pretty …).

It’s an architectural coming of age (18 yo) of Sun Microsystem’s original Project Blackbox Modular Datacenter concept to be sure ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter ), but that was soon to be “jokingly” referred to as “White Trash systems” ( https://www.theregister.com/2006/10/18/sun_white_trash/ ), and indeed, where are the wheels? (yuck!)

I’m glad Lippert found it fit to reassure us the 50-ton loading of each unit prevents it from meeting its Wizard of Oz at each wind gust. But I sure hope Alice Recoque gets to be more aesthetically pleasing than this here plain jane Jupiter Nascar pleather overalls fashion mishap!