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Rural America's internet problem is not edge compute. It's the FCC constantly redefining "broadband" to include barely-connected households. This solves nothin
by bigyabai 1y ago
Rural America's internet problem is not edge compute. It's the FCC constantly redefining "broadband" to include barely-connected households.
This solves nothing, even if you bridge the digital divide. It's also subject to local regulation, likely unprofitable and requires extraordinary headcount-to-compute ratios that will never displace Oracle or AWS. Their "pre-built logistics and power grid" would get saturated by 2 colo machines.
- cylinder714 1y agoAs someone living in rural Nevada and served by Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, I agree. I don't see what problems out here would be solved by local cloud computing resources. The snippet provided doesn't go into detail.