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Data centers live off connectivity. You can't just build it anywhere. It's not just about the cloud provider. What about other cloud providers, ISPs, exchanges
by re-thc 3y ago
Data centers live off connectivity. You can't just build it anywhere. It's not just about the cloud provider.
What about other cloud providers, ISPs, exchanges, peering endpoints, etc? There needs to be good fiber routes to other cities or data centers in the region.
You can't just pick a random city and hope AT&T, Verizon, NTT or whoever would turn up. You can surely pay for it but then that might cost more than the power and other concerns. If there's not enough bandwidth you wouldn't even survive a DDoS attack.
- britzkopf 3y agoBut I often think surely there must be some viable economic model in which a data center is built in some remote area with plentiful hydroelectric or geothermal power that would largely go unharnessed, and that cheap source of power makes building specific connectivity infrastructure to that location feasible, no? Someone correct me...
- latchkey 3y agoNote the number of datacenters in Quincy, WA and the Coinmint facility in Massena, NY.
- immibis 3y agoThere is, it's called Bitcoin mining.
- latchkey 3y agoYou're kind of right, except for the connectivity portion. Bitcoin mining requires very little bandwidth. People are successfully large scale mining on starlink connections.