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Which is more difficult, routing a fiber line or a natural gas line?
by smileysteve 4y ago
Which is more difficult, routing a fiber line or a natural gas line?
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- Alupis 4y agoI don't understand what you are driving at. There is no reality where this server "heater" can replace a natural gas or electricity line - so the comparison is moot. Further, fiber lines are owned by an entity. This private, for-profit company is not going to be able to just use someone else's fiber lines simply because they are nearby. Even further, bringing a fiber line even across a building can run thousands or tens of thousands. Across a street? Try a hundred thousand... I've been here many times with fiber, ie. there's nothing cheap about it, all of it. There is no reality where this server company is going to shell out tens of thousands to run fiber lines to a bunch of one-off installations.
- smileysteve 4y agoAh, you've missed the context that this is coordinated with British Gas, providing the utility natural gas infrastructure that exists to heat the water. Many gas companies have already entrenched fiber when performing maintenance on consumer gas lines for monitoring stations. Fiber is shallower and is easy to trench relative to gas lines. It also serves as an early warning sign when digging.
- Alupis 4y agoNone of which means this for-profit company gets access to utility infrastructure. Even if they did... it would still be cost prohibitive to split, splice, run and terminate fiber into a residential unit - all in the name of saving $200 a year. It simply does not make economic sense. Like I said before - I strongly suspect the entire truth is not being told about this arrangement.