I visited. For the equipment and plumbing, it’s a tight squeeze. Los Gatos has a very open looking motif, but that’s an illusion. Everything is tight. For this installation, they separated the equipment into no less than four pads, and I think more. The runs from the final three clusters of cabinets (the AC-DC converters) go direct in three trenches to the clusters of pedestals; that’s actually what I recommended above or almost wrote, to minimize tree root disturbance and tree trunk disturbance. The workmanship of what has been done looks very good. (I hope the JHA agrees, at least insofarasmuch as the work already completed). They even routed the trenches around the bulk of tree root areas.
I’m not certain if they sacrificed trees. I was going to take an “after” pic to match other pics I made to see, but since there was a full team of construction workers today, I decided only to compliment the workmanship and remark how tight the design was and make my peace.
My compliments to Los Gatos, the architects, engineers, and the construction crew, so far.
I did snap this picture of a Russian singing and talking in Russian in the alley by Starbucks, videocalling or posting a vid:
Talk about enemy at the gates! I hope he’s one of the enlightened people escaping the Dark Oil Lord of North Asia.