They may be safer than other things people contemplate putting in shipping containers: small nuclear weapons, chemical or biological weapons, really any weapons at all. See Israel's Mossad and Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb.
I say may be because really, who knows?
From Yahoo Finance via MSN, October 21:
Nvidia (NVDA) wants to reduce the time it takes for its customers to start generating revenue from its AI systems.
At its GTC event in Berlin on Wednesday, the company unveiled its DSX POD, a reference design for an AI data center packed into a box about the size of a standard shipping container.
Data center construction can take months, if not years, to get up and running. And because they don't start generating revenue until they begin processing AI tokens, the longer a data center takes to come online, the more expenses pile up.
The DSX POD is meant to serve as a faster, modular solution for companies that need access to data center capabilities sooner rather than later.
"The moment then you have to install these AI factories, and they're gigantic. And putting these AI factories into service takes months. If we could reduce that months, you know, from the moment that the systems are shipped to the moment that it's deployed and being operational, if we could reduce it from months to weeks or even a month, that will be completely game-changing for all of these AI factories," CEO Jensen Huang told Deirdre Bosa.
According to Nvidia, the Vera Rubin-powered DSX PODs will arrive on site, ready to be plugged into the power, cooling, and networking infrastructure, reducing deployment time from six months to 14 days....
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And at the company, October 21:
NVIDIA Introduces DSX POD AI Factories to Accelerate Europe’s Infrastructure Deployment
Factory-Built With a Global Ecosystem Including Bull, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Schneider Electric and Vertiv, the New Reference Design Speeds Infrastructure Deployment From Months to Weeks, Accelerating Time to First Production Tokens....
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