I'm guessing it's modeled after the upholstered benches of a Cray Supercomputer.
Those actually are benches by the way, they are there for sitting on. The soft cushy foam isn't part of the machine or anything. They serve no actual purpose other than housing the power supplies and giving people a place to sit so they can look cool.
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