The backplane standard could be an industry standard or just something we do to suit the purpose. The main thing is that the metal work and supporting guides are standard things. With a full height 19" rack we might be looking at fitting up to 4-8 sub racks depending on height we adopt on the sub-rack and what we have in power supplies. So we might be able to do an entire rack with 0.5-1 TH/s if I can add up correctly. Then it is just a case of adding racks. In data centres you might find hundreds of these sorts of racks.
So rather than a single big board, it's more like it's own dedicated 3-4u rack rig, that had multiple boards inside contained in it's own chassis?
I'm interested.