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That is exactly what is happening in high frequency trading. Firms are paying crazy money to be colocated in the same data centers as the exchanges.

• gcb0 8y ago
  And we as a society know that and think it is normal. Crazy.
  • hazz99 8y ago
    I don't think it's a bad thing - theyre business model relies upon low latency, and so they do everything they can to reduce it
    • gcb0 8y ago
      https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trading https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trading
• akatechis 8y ago
  Exactly. At an investment bank for which I used to work in NYC, they moved their datacenter to be next door to the exchange's datacenter just to reduce latency. Because in HFT, every fraction of a second can mean the difference between 10s or even 100s of millions of dollars in profit/loss.