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I think this is already happening. OVH built a datacenter in Canada, close to a big dam, so they could get access to cheap electricity and a lot of it. This is
by seec 2y ago
I think this is already happening. OVH built a datacenter in Canada, close to a big dam, so they could get access to cheap electricity and a lot of it.
This is just one example, but I would be surprised if that wasn't a consideration in more datacenter placements.
The problem of course is to find a place where electricity is abundant, but you also have easy access to the large fiber backbone network.
If you have a lot of traffic, fibers aren't cheap, especially interconnecting them with others.