alt Hacker News"Alaska" servers. "Alaska Arctic Power".
From a company in Mexico.
I mean, they may be perfectly good servers. Well, if it stood for a decade before failing, it's not just. I'm just having trouble seeing past the glaring naming non sequitur.
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"Alaska" carries reasonably strong connotations of ruggedness and durability, and probably the arctic associations are also beneficial if you want to sell a server advertised as "running cool", or whatever. It's just marketing.
It's no different than Toyota manufacturing Tacoma trucks in Mexico, Hyundai making the Santa Fe in South Korea, or Boston Pizza and Swiss Chalet existing despite being Canadian companies and having nothing to do with either Boston or Switzerland.
"Toyota Tundra"?
"Kia Telluride"?
The blog actually spells it "Artic", not "Arctic". I wonder if the blog or the company misspelled it.