OT New Silicone Valley = Prineville, Oregon...?

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Silicon Beach 4 Life

 

[donkiez]

Data centers provide a relatively low amount of jobs compared to the area they occupy. They are basically acres of computers filled with automation and a few people running around managing the electrical distribution, minor repairs and upgrades. 90% of the time these people are sitting on computers pressing buttons and waiting for problems and the farm itself is an electronic ghost town.

 

[Lanny]

in other news I thought this was interesting. Another in a series of articles about how Prineville has become the home of giant data centers:

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-...-total-spending-there-will-top-2-billion.html


for perspective, Facebook's infrastructure, gauged in building square feet, when finished in 2023, will cover nearly 900 acres; one square mile is 640 acres. Kind of mind boggling considering where it is. That's just Facebook. Apple has a huge data center presence as well

I had a friend who graduated with me and a bunch of extremely bright guys in Electrical and Computer Engineering who was from Prineville. My roommate who became one of the top memory chip designers in the world was from Bend. Some of our graduates were the top designers at Intel. Yeah, I'll bet they're involved.

 

[Hoopguru]

I had a friend who graduated with me and a bunch of extremely bright guys in Electrical and Computer Engineering who was from Prineville. My roommate who became one of the top memory chip designers in the world was from Bend. Some of our graduates were the top designers at Intel. Yeah, I'll bet they're involved.

Funny how some of the high techies are located in low cost red States or cities.

 

[Lanny]

Funny how some of the high techies are located in low cost red States or cities.

The guy from Prineville graduated from high school in about '65 so he's been into high tech for a long time.
My college roommate, John, was about five years younger but still into high tech a long time ago.
My closest friend for a long time until my dialysis got between us, graduated from Milwaukee high. We roomed together after college graduation. Jack was the President of a very reputable software engineering company. He use to work at Tektronix when I was there but then left to do contracting starting with Intel's mother board. He and his 15 partners have worked for all of the best high tech companies in the world.
Another graduate of ours, Ron, got two degrees summa cum laude in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in mathematics. He went from working for Battelle Northwest to Intel to President of N-Cube where he reported directly to Larry Ellison, second richest man in the world at the time, now worth a meager $69 Billion. He quit N-Cube because he didn't think Ellison was very ethical. Next he went to work for the Radisys Corp. and last I heard which was a few years ago, he was the acting president of Radisys. He was from Roseberg, a relatively small town.
My partner in my senior project in my solid state devices class was Art who was also from a small town. Art became a software engineer for Boeing Computing. He probably runs the joint by now.
I'm about the only one I can think of who was from Portland.
Oops, just remembered a guy from Portland who graduated from Benson who became a flight control engineer for Boeing. I'll bet he shit a brick when they went ahead with production of the 737 Max, which I believe is the result of pressure from the inherited former McDonnell Douglas engineers and over the protestations of the Boeing engineers.
We had one guy from Turkey and one guy from Venezuela. I believe we had another guy from Singapore and another from China. When these four guys asked questions in class no one except our Chinese instructor could understand them so we missed whatever was asked and had trouble understanding the answer especially when lacking the context.
Our class had the highest proportion of our graduates that took and passed our first professional exam of any graduating class of engineers in the nation. Yep, that includes MIT, Princeton, Georgia Tech, Cal Tech, University of Chicago, Cal Berkeley and Stanford. That same year the students who graduated at least four years earlier took their professional exams in their particular fields and also received the highest percentage of those graduates from OSU who passed their final professional exam beating out every university in the country.
By the way, we all had slide rules until our Senior year when we graduated to electronic calculators. Funny, our senior project in solid state devices was to design the brains of a calculator and then make a chip in the lab instantiating that design. We did it.
I could go on but you're getting bored and ready to fall asleep.

 

[Hoopguru]

The guy from Prineville graduated from high school in about '65 so he's been into high tech for a long time.
My college roommate, John, was about five years younger but still into high tech a long time ago.
My closest friend for a long time until my dialysis got between us, graduated from Milwaukee high. We roomed together after college graduation. Jack was the President of a very reputable software engineering company. He use to work at Tektronix when I was there but then left to do contracting starting with Intel's mother board. He and his 15 partners have worked for all of the best high tech companies in the world.
Another graduate of ours, Ron, got two degrees summa cum laude in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in mathematics. He went from working for Battelle Northwest to Intel to President of N-Cube where he reported directly to Larry Ellison, second richest man in the world at the time, now worth a meager $69 Billion. He quit N-Cube because he didn't think Ellison was very ethical. Next he went to work for the Radisys Corp. and last I heard which was a few years ago, he was the acting president of Radisys. He was from Roseberg, a relatively small town.
My partner in my senior project in my solid state devices class was Art who was also from a small town. Art became a software engineer for Boeing Computing. He probably runs the joint by now.
I'm about the only one I can think of who was from Portland.
Oops, just remembered a guy from Portland who graduated from Benson who became a flight control engineer for Boeing. I'll bet he shit a brick when they went ahead with production of the 737 Max, which I believe is the result of pressure from the inherited former McDonnell Douglas engineers and over the protestations of the Boeing engineers.
We had one guy from Turkey and one guy from Venezuela. I believe we had another guy from Singapore and another from China. When these four guys asked questions in class no one except our Chinese instructor could understand them so we missed whatever was asked and had trouble understanding the answer especially when lacking the context.
Our class had the highest proportion of our graduates that took and passed our first professional exam of any graduating class of engineers in the nation. Yep, that includes MIT, Princeton, Georgia Tech, Cal Tech, University of Chicago, Cal Berkeley and Stanford. That same year the students who graduated at least four years earlier took their professional exams in their particular fields and also received the highest percentage of those graduates from OSU who passed their final professional exam beating out every university in the country.
By the way, we all had slide rules until our Senior year when we graduated to electronic calculators. Funny, our senior project in solid state devices was to design the brains of a calculator and then make a chip in the lab instantiating that design. We did it.
I could go on but you're getting bored and ready to fall asleep.

That Boeing big body plant in Mukiteo is impressive.
I was there a number years back the day they rolled the first 777 out.
At that time they said it was the world largest building by volume and more than a mile around.
The best part was their tours are free with history movie and bus tour through the plant and where they park all da planes to be picked up by customers of foreign countries.
If you live in the PNW and haven’t taken in this tour Just before Everett WA what a great family adventure.

 

[Lanny]

That Boeing big body plant in Mukiteo is impressive.
I was there a number years back the day they rolled the first 777 out.
At that time they said it was the world largest building by volume and more than a mile around.
The best part was their tours are free with history movie and bus tour through the plant and where they park all da planes to be picked up by customers of foreign countries.
If you live in the PNW and haven’t taken in this tour Just before Everett WA what a great family adventure.

Mukilteo is not where that building is located. It is technically inside of Everett. I worked in that building for over 2 years. Mukilteo is right across the street from that Boeing building.
I was once part of an action team of high executives to work on the producibility of all the jumbo jets including the newly designed but not yet in production 777. They had to expand the size of our building to accomodate the 777. It was the largest building in the world before they expanded it.
There's a section of that building known as mock-up. I once went there as part of my job. I got lost even though I knew the general direction. I had to ask directions even though the area is so large that it's got (had) two jumbo jets in it. That's how big that building is. The building is so large that it has it's own weather. You could have a bank of lights burn out and never notice it.
I will never forget working there.

 

[Hoopguru]

Mukilteo is not where that building is located. It is technically inside of Everett. I worked in that building for over 2 years. Mukilteo is right across the street from that Boeing building.
I was once part of an action team of high executives to work on the producibility of all the jumbo jets including the newly designed but not yet in production 777. They had to expand the size of our building to accomodate the 777. It was the largest building in the world before they expanded it.
There's a section of that building known as mock-up. I once went there as part of my job. I got lost even though I knew the general direction. I had to ask directions even though the area is so large that it's got (had) two jumbo jets in it. That's how big that building is. The building is so large that it has it's own weather. You could have a bank of lights burn out and never notice it.
I will never forget working there.

I wa so impressed with the cleanliness you could eat off the floors.
I always say Mukilteo as you take the Mukilteo exit and its within spitting distance.
That's cool you worked there and again if people are looking for an inexpensive day tripper man, you can't beat that big body................plant!

 

[Hoopguru]

I wa so impressed with the cleanliness you could eat off the floors.
I always say Mukilteo as you take the Mukilteo exit and its within spitting distance.
That's cool you worked there and again if people are looking for an inexpensive day tripper man, you can't beat that big body................plant!

 

[Lanny]

Yes, if you can spit across the street, you can literally spit from that Boeing facility to Mukilteo.
When I was working there the largest cargo plane in the world landed at Paine Field, next to that building. It was a Russian cargo plane sent to pick up supplies donated by Americans for some disaster victims somewhere in the world.

Somewhere around the North East corner as a place where they had a plane outdoors that underwent constant compression and decompression to study weak spots that would developed after countless landings and takeoffs.
Also nearby was a building devoted to all the planning and scheduling that goes on in the production of jumbo airplanes. I worked in planning a few months to get my feet wet in the building of planes. I spent another 3 or 4 months learning how to use the specialized computer programs involved in airplane construction which was called OnLine Planning.
I have a lot of stories about building their airplanes.