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its hard to serve customers in Asia from a DC in Iceland

• porphyra 2y ago
  and the cold northern parts of Asia are mostly Russia and China. I guess maybe a Hokkaido data center would be cool, although over half of Hokkaido's energy still comes from fossil fuels. Singapore, unlike Japan, is very attractive from a geopolitical standpoint as it is one of the few places that's friendly to both the West and to China, making it uniquely suited to doing business with both.
• dzhiurgis 2y ago
  Does 50-100ms latency matters when LLM takes few seconds to minutes to produce answer?
  • frontfor 2y ago
    This is stating the obvious, but LLM is not the only use case for a data centre.
    • dzhiurgis 2y ago
      Of course, but looking at next 10 years we will be seeing 10-100x growth specifically in LLM and AI, both can be located ~anywhere in the world.
      • muzani 2y ago
        LLM latency has also gone down 10-100x in the last 5 years. Back then, you could only give it a few sentences, now it's like $10 for 10 novels worth of text.