Engineer: companies hide servers from management to dodge forced cloud migrations
irth7 · x · 2026-09-18
Responding to calls to "just pull the plug" on AI datacenters, engineer irth7 shares firsthand anecdotes: companies running server farms rarely keep accurate inventories, so nobody knows exactly how many servers they have or where. He's even seen a team deliberately hide servers from upper management to dodge a forced cloud migration, knowing they'd have to migrate back once the cloud bill arrived. Only at companies like AWS, where servers are the core business, is inventory likely accurate.
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