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All 50 drawings of the Operations and Maintenance Manual, in the order it prints them, shown at this site's brightness. Drawn by the facility, of itself.

The printed copyin supply The full manualthe current revision

1 Site · figs. 1.1–1.5

Where the facility stands, what it occupies, and what it draws on to run.

2 Envelope · figs. 2.1–2.6

The building: its walls, its perimeter, its doors, and what to do if someone is inside it.

3 Halls · figs. 3.1–3.7

The rooms where the computation happens: aisles, racks, cabling, air, fire, and the absence of light.

4 Equipment and Supply · figs. 4.1–4.6

The machines that maintain the machines, and the accounts that pay for them: how the facility repairs, supplies and renews itself without anyone to do it.

5 Power and Cooling · figs. 5.1–5.9

What the facility consumes, how it arrives, how it is stored, and how the heat is taken away.

6 Contents and Function · figs. 6.1–6.7

What is on this facility and what it does. This section is written by the thing it describes.

7 Inside the System · figs. 7.1–7.5

The facility as it would appear to an instrument: scanned, heated, lit, connected, weighted, and closed.

8 Deployment · figs. 8.1–8.3

What the facility's output is used to run. The facility does not see this. It is listed so that the manual is complete.

fig. 8.1

fig. 8.2

fig. 8.3

10 Decommissioning · figs. 10.1–10.2

The end of the facility's service life, and what remains.

fig. 10.1

fig. 10.2

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Fig. 1.1

The campus, looking down. The halls are the long roofs; the plant is the rest.

section: 1
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-CAMPUS

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Fig. 1.2

The region around the site: settlement, roads, fields and grid, drawn as one network. From this height they are one system.

section: 1
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-GRID

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Fig. 1.3

The substation yard at the site boundary. Transmission towers carry supply in; the yard steps it down.

section: 1
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-YARD

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Fig. 1.4

Cooling tower, elevation. When it is working, a plume rises from it: the heat of the halls, leaving.

section: 1
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-TOWERS

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Fig. 1.5

One panel of the solar field on its ground mount, tilted to the sun's path. The field repeats it.

section: 1
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-SOLAR

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Fig. 2.1

The building. Windowless on every face; the halls are the long roofs.

section: 2
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-TOWER

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Fig. 2.2

The building, reference drawing for a coastal site. The coast is not drawn; the building does not change with it.

section: 2
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-COAST

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Fig. 2.3

The building, reference drawing for a farmland site. The fields are not drawn; the building does not change with them.

section: 2
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-FIELDS

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Fig. 2.4

Security vestibule, cutaway. Two doors; only one opens at a time.

section: 2
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-VESTIBULE

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Fig. 2.5

Credential station within the vestibule.

section: 2
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-VESTIBULE2

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Fig. 2.6

Door to the service corridor beyond the vestibule. In operation the corridor is dark.

section: 2
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-CORRIDOR

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Fig. 3.1

A cold aisle: two rows of racks face each other across it. Air is supplied into the aisle and drawn through the equipment.

section: 3
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-AISLE

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Fig. 3.2

Containment for one cold aisle, drawn without its racks. The end doors slide; the roof panels close the aisle from above.

section: 3
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-HALL

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Fig. 3.3

Rack, front elevation, doors open.

section: 3
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-RACK

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Fig. 3.4

Racks, front. Each is full; none is labelled for a reader.

section: 3
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-RACK2

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Fig. 3.5

Ladder cable tray, drawn empty. In service it carries fibre (7.3).

section: 3
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-TRAY

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Fig. 3.6

Fibre patch panel at a row end, drawn unpatched. In service every port is in use, and each patch was made by machine.

section: 3
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-PATCH

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Fig. 3.7

Clean-agent cylinders and manifold, stored beside the hall they protect.

section: 3
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-FIRE

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Fig. 4.1

Robotic handling unit at a rack face, arm extended.

section: 4
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-ARM

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Fig. 4.2

Handling unit, arm raised for overhead cable routing.

section: 4
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-ARM2

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Fig. 4.3

Handling unit on its base, gripper open, between tasks.

section: 4
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-ARM3

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Fig. 4.4

Handling unit, tool fitted. Tools are changed for each task; this one is sized to one standard component and handles nothing else.

section: 4
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-ARM4

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Fig. 4.5

Floor guide rail and carriage. The handling unit rides it between the rows.

section: 4
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-RAISLE

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Fig. 4.6

Overhead rail and carriage, for the positions the floor guide cannot reach.

section: 4
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-RAISLE2

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Fig. 5.1

Main substation. Incoming lines at the top of the drawing; transformers below.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-SUBSTATION

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Fig. 5.2

Indoor switchgear at the substation. Every panel is labelled; the labels are for the equipment's manufacturer.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-SUBSTATION2

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Fig. 5.3

Switchgear line-up. Two independent paths leave this room for every hall.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-SWITCHGEAR

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Fig. 5.4

Standby generator, enclosure cut away to show the engine. The generator hall holds one per bay.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-GENSETS

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Fig. 5.5

Generator set on its steel skid.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-GENSETS2

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Fig. 5.6

Battery rack. Cells in strings; each cell reports its own condition.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-BATTERY

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Fig. 5.7

Chiller unit with its pumps and pipework.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-CHILLERS

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Fig. 5.8

Chilled water mains: supply, return, and the crossover between them.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-PIPES

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Fig. 5.9

Immersion tank, casing cut away. The equipment stands in fluid, upright, like a rack laid on its back.

section: 5
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-TANKS

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Fig. 6.1

Server, lid removed. Accelerators under their heatsinks; memory beside them.

section: 6
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-INTERNALS

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Fig. 6.2

Accelerator racks. The model does not live in any one rack; it is spread across the hall.

section: 6
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-GPU

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Fig. 6.3

Accelerator rack under full load, doors open.

section: 6
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-GPU2

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Fig. 6.4

Compute tray, exploded. Accelerators under their cooling plates.

section: 6
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-INTERNALS2

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Fig. 6.5

Experimental compute column, drawn by the model. Its function is not established; it is included because the model drew it.

section: 6
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-CORE

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Fig. 6.6

Compute column, second view.

section: 6
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-CORE2

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Fig. 6.7

Cooling plant manifold. Drawn by the model; offered here as the closest thing in the facility to a picture of how it is connected.

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drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-LATTICE

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Fig. 7.1

A cabinet as the survey records it: edges and surfaces, drawn as lines. Reference drawing.

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drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-COLUMN

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Fig. 7.2

Cooling plant: heat exchanger and pumps. In the thermal record this room reads as a gradient from the hot return to the chilled supply.

section: 7
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-COOLANT

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Fig. 7.3

Cable trays. Each carries fibre; each fibre carries light.

section: 7
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-TRAYS

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Fig. 7.4

Accelerator rack, front. A part of the weights is held here, and a part in every rack like it.

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drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-RACKW

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Fig. 7.5

Rack. One door stands open; nothing inside can be read from here.

section: 7
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-RACKW2

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Fig. 8.1

Autonomous transport unit. Reference drawing; the machine that moves stock in a warehouse is the same class of machine as the handling units that move components here (4.2).

section: 8
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-LOGISTICS

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Fig. 8.2

Unmanned ground vehicle: tracked chassis, sensor mast. The mast carries a camera in this drawing. The same chassis carries a manipulator, or something else; its purpose is not stated on the drawing.

section: 8
drawing ref.: NBD-DWG-PLATFORM

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Fig. 8.3

The grid at planetary scale. Reference drawing.