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But 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
by britzkopf 3y ago
But 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.