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NTT/RagingWire VA1.

Here's the details about the sea shipment that was sent from Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany to the US subsidiary: https://www.importgenius.com/importers/hetzner-us

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Oh wow, that's really amazing. Thanks for the info!

So they shipped a 40ft container full of servers via ship to the US? That really surprises me, I always thought this kind of equipment was done via air cargo only.

Air Freight is extremely expensive for this purpose.

It is, but these components also probably cost upwards of a million dollars and are very fragile. Esp with current shipping delays (not sure how the situation is on the route EU-US), I'm surprised they waited the extra few weeks to save a few thousand $.

Now that is a cool database. I'm surprised it's public.

so if i didn't misunderstood that page they've had one 40 foot container delivered with nineteen "server hardware" pieces, likely racks? thats less than i would've expected, but it makes sense considering that they probably don't have any big customers lined up.

it will be interesting to see how fast they'll grow.

Maybe they only shipped some components they don't want to have assembled there or that are more expensive in the US. So theoretically they could've just shipped network equipment or storage servers (for block volumes) while other servers were assembled in the US. I can't really imagine that it's cheaper for them to assemble complete racks in Germany and ship them over, assembly cost by a third party in the US is likely cheaper and definitely much faster.

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