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London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds
- ggm 2y agoRTT in the UK as a whole is so low, they should put the DC in locations close to generators with surplus capacity. This is why (in my opinion) IX north of London never took off: the 60ms of extra transit to be in Glasgow or Newcastle is lost in noise. Maybe by now there are LINX outreach arms. I don't know, I'm not in the UK. HFT aside, I don't think long line RTT to get to DC in the UK matters. Nor for that matter, would the DC being in the Netherlands or Ireland. Go where the capacity is. Don't go to London and complain about planning restrictions, go where you can. Around Washington D.C. rural communities have mixed feelings about the DC. They aren't always nice neighbours, if you expected to be in bucolic paradise.