Just hit 10,000 linear feet of conduit on a single job site in Austin...

We're running underground power for a new data center off Parmer Lane and I couldn't believe it when I added it up. That's 10,000 feet of 4 inch PVC plus all the sweeps and pull boxes. Did anyone else have a number like that just sneak up on you and make you stop for a second?

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fiona_hunt713d ago

Pretty sure ants don't have electrons, Wade. They'd be running around in the dark down there, tripping over sweeps. But you're not wrong about datacenter jobs being a black hole for conduit, we're on month four of a similar build down in Round Rock and the material list just keeps growing. Bet your foreman at least sprang for tacos though, ours just handed us a new roll of blue tape and pointed at the next pad.

wade_kelly773d ago

10,000 feet of 4 inch PVC plus sweeps and boxes? Man, you could build a water park with that much pipe. Did the foreman at least buy you guys lunch after you hit that number or was it just a pat on the back and a "good job, now go trench the next 5,000"? I swear, these data center jobs are just endless miles of conduit, like we're trying to plumb the whole state of Texas. At that point you're not running conduit, you're building a secret underground highway for ants that carry electricity.

williamhenderson3d ago

oh man you are not wrong at all. we did a job outside dallas last year that was almost exactly the same thing. 12,000 feet of 2 inch and 4 inch pvc with these massive j box vaults every 200 feet. foreman kept saying "just a little further" like we were hiking up a mountain or something. by the time we got all the glue joints done and the sweeps buried i think i aged five years. and no lunch either, just a "hey nice work" and then he handed me a shovel for backfill. they really do expect you to plumb the whole earth for these server farms. i swear the next one i work on i'm bringing a tent and just living in the trench.