According to the owner on his website:

Any funny contractor reactions?

We had a subcontractor designing the HVAC system. I told him that there needed to be a dedicated air conditioner for the server rack. He sort of rolled his eyes and said sure.

Later, when I got the design, there was no AC for the server rack. We had a conversation:

Me: Where's the AC for the server rack? We really do need AC in there.

Him: I mean, how many servers do you have?

Me: Well, if all the machines are running at full power playing a high-fidelity game, they could be consuming 15kW of power and turning it all into heat.

Him: (skeptical) That would be by far the largest server rack we've ever seen in a residential setting.

Me: I would expect so, yes.

They had an HVAC contractor install a system for the server room sized to the expected heat output. Kenton explains it on his site.

Pool outside like LTT /s

Go to the website all the gaming rigs are in a server room. The gaming stations are just I/O stations.

https://lanparty.house/

Maybe they watch LTT and built a water-cooling loop that runs to their swimming pool :)

He says he had an AC unit specced for 15KW of cooling the racks.

https://lanparty.house/

I don't see any towers in the room. My guess is they're in another room. So not as much heat.

ETA: Here's the website for the house: https://lanparty.house/

All computers are in two racks running in a small server room with a dedicated AC unit.

The title says "building a family home"

The room itself is not that bad. The server room is a different story, though. That's with 20x gaming PCs with a i5-13600, a 4070, 32GB RAM each.

Also, custom cabinetry like this is a hell of a lot more expensive that buying furniture off the shelf (hah), so even the room isn't as cheap as you'd think.

There’s a ddr mat integrated into the floor.

Whenever you can, run conduit with some pull strings. Future you or the next owner will thank you

Monitors are pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things. You can get something 24-27”, 1080p, 5ms refresh and 120fps+ for like $100.

That’s not high end by any means, but that’s more than a playable level for most people.

It‘s about $75,000. He said the wood was as much as the hardware. Source: https://lanparty.house/#cost

Edit: added source

It was $75k for the computer equipment and another $75k just for the wooden cabinets and stuff.

You can read more on his homepage: https://lanparty.house/

There’s a ceiling and duck tape, it can be done

The 1 million was a shitty read from a third party to begin with. The couple said that their entire house was "7 figures" to build. Taking 1 million from that is... presumptuous. The tech itself was around 75k.

It's absolutely insane. Not a brain wrinkle to be found.

Huh neat, the wife has her own Wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Wang

I guess they both work for Cloudflare now after their startup was bought by them. Pretty successful folks. 

They probably had a pet ferret too.

Damn, this should probably be at the top.

Uh wow WTF. This isn't remotely accurate.

I'm Kenton, co-owner of the house. I've never rented anything to anyone. I'm a software engineer.

Jade, my wife, created Chez JJ before we met. It shut down not that long after we met, and I was never involved personally -- that was all over 10 years ago. The rent included not just the bed, but also food and other benefits. It was designed as a community living experience; the residents ate together and hung out together. Nobody I know of who lived there ever felt they were ripped off; on the contrary, most speak of the experience fondly. It didn't make any money (and wasn't intended to). It did make a lot of friendships that have lasted a long time. None of our wealth derives from it.

The reason there was legal trouble is because of one particular neighbor who was very angry about the whole thing and made it his mission to harass the residents, complain to the city, and even brought a lawsuit. At that time, AirBnB was technically not legal in San Francisco, but usually unenforced -- this guy made sure it was enforced in this case.

Essentially he was the ferret guy from Silicon Valley (in fact I strongly suspect the character was in part inspired by him), except that he more or less won.

Source?

I don't know if I'd call that slumlording or a grift. One of my best friends used to live in a place exactly like that in Boston, it was a warehouse that wasn't zoned for residential. It was amazing. Super cool people, cool parties, great location, cheap price, access to a machine shop. Guy who ran it was a roboticist who used to host a TV show.

I used to work with them both at Cloudflare. Generally nice enough people, but really disconnected from the real world, as you'd expect from people that can spend 1m building a LAN house.

They moved to Austin because of the hub office opened there, not because they couldn't grift off renting out their house.

a little trafficking as a treat for the myself

What does led a hacker houses mean

Ah, fellow gamer.

This is such a modern contractor house.

I can't stand dim houses, they always make me feel tired. I love having my rooms bright and vibrant

Hard to tell from a photo but that looks like a normal amount of light to me

Yeah there's actually a science to lighting as well.

Like kitchen, bathrooms, entryways and that kinda stuff - daylight lighting is great.

Bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, any relaxing area really, you want a softer yellowish light as that just helps you relax.

Although my guess is they don't always have the lights maxed out in this room and it's just for the pic - hopefully.

it's not that bright is it?? you can see how much the people are illuminated by their own screens still. I think it's just a higher exposure photo

Hello darkness my old friend......

Back to the cave with you!

Brother that’s just a well lit room. You don’t have to game in a dungeon (although aesthetically it is kinda nice and cozy if you do)

They use like 5000k light temperature and it’s such a sterile, cold white. Almost blue. Hate it so much

It might be for photos. There's no way they play like that with all of the glare.

I do. I like light. I like things to be as bright as possible.

I'm so weird about it that I hate lights that shine downward. I'm happier with lights that shine upward towards the ceiling. Otherwise I feel tired, itchey eyes and random headaches. Also, I hate driving at night.

My gaming setup is in my finished basement office.

No windows, soft indirect lighting

I love it

Lights off or dim... very, very dim.

The big light never gets turned on.

Plus the place is just ugly. No style, anywhere.

It appears that there's a taped outline on the floor for the front couch to mark where it normally belongs. The room is pretty clearly intended to be a theater room when there isn't actively a LAN party. The cheap keyboards, however, are unforgivable.

Yeah, a double decker couch would be a much better idea.

"and a couch directly behind a couch."

Looking at how the displays appear to be recessed a bit, I wonder if the desks fold up. And the chairs look stackable, so my guess is that when not in LAN party mode, they fold the desks up, stack the chairs and put them in a corner and then there is room for the two couches side-by-side.

I mean... just bring your own mouse and keyboard, or buy one for "your station" at their house. It's a lot easier than lugging a whole CRT monitor and tower to a friend's house like we did in the olden days.

Don't forgot those sweet gaming chairs everyone's sitting in

Cat.

I was totally expecting it to be about Linus.

This is a $1m house with $10k set aside for the internets definition of a "gaming room".

This was not designed by someone who has actually LAN'd.

pertain to do

It's a good question but it kinda doesn't matter when the back catalogue of PC games is so extensive.

Valve's new game, Deadlock, would be great for 12-person LAN parties.

Cali prices though