Landfill design is really interesting, and hard drives are very well sealed and aluminum. It would be sitting in a fairly well drained spot, if the seal was not perforated during compaction there’s a good chance the platters are readable.
My home stuff is like this
Like a sauna
Each of those server chassis in the 3m high stack is probably some combination of power intensive, loud and hot. Assuming around 200w median, that one stack would continuously draw 34A. Loading the individual servers could be 2-4x that amount.
That’s going to be a toasty room.
Yeah totally, it’s just wrong to say it’s not the majority of them.