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The main reason is latency - makes more sense to build a datacenter in the UK or Northeast North America as that would reduce the average latency for more peopl
by opportune 8y ago
The main reason is latency - makes more sense to build a datacenter in the UK or Northeast North America as that would reduce the average latency for more people. The domestic need for a massive datacenter is also rather small.
- ksec 8y agoApple, Facebook , and Microsoft are all building or had Massive Datacenter, at least one or two somewhere in EU and US. Likly for Storage and other non latency sensitive application. But none of them choose Iceland, where Electricity is clean and cheap.
- paxy 8y agoYup, all major tech companies have data centers in Dublin, mainly because the government has made it very easy and attractive to do so.