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> As for the datacenter (I’ve racked many things with A/B power) the entire point is redundancy which this defeats the purpose of. Seems incredibly bizarre to me in so many ways.

Yes - often for the data centre you'd end up with something like [1] with 4x 2700W power supplies, providing redundancy and ample power at the same time. It does mean you need four 220v power feeds though.

[1] https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/4u/sys-421...




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