If I had to guess the PM on this was somebody who'd built traditional supercomputer datacenter environments 15-20 years ago for some entries in the top 50 of the top500 list, and scaled up what they knew how to build.
edit: Looking at the photos in more detail it looks like they're retrofitted hot/cold separation into a traditional 20-year-ago style raised floor environment. The fact that there's zero overhead ladder racks carrying AC power (or -48VDC cabling) and zero overhead fiber trays means that everything is under the floor... Very costly and labor intensive compared to modern methods of building a datacenter. Also means that it's not designed to be changed or modified very often, if ever, and it's a huge forklift upgrade if the power and fiber layer 1 topology ever needs to change.
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