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Texas is actually absorbing a lot of the US's new generation capacity (though the grid there remains dirty) It's fraught to make a DC for a single purpose beca
by Karrot_Kream 6mo ago
Texas is actually absorbing a lot of the US's new generation capacity (though the grid there remains dirty)
It's fraught to make a DC for a single purpose because it reduces the value of the DC. A DC that serves multiple purposes can handle other workloads. Moreover even if inference is slow, latency does still matter, and it costs quite a bit to light up net capacity (you still have to run fiber to an interconnect and depending on how far you are, this can get expensive fast.)
- 0cf8612b2e1e 6mo agoI guess, but the amount of money getting thrown around is just stupid. Having to spend a few million to light up some more fiber is a drop in the bucket. Supposedly some of the behind the meter gas turbines that have been getting installed are rated for a ten year service life. The DCs are burning them out in 10 months from rapid cycling. If they are willing to treat $10-100 million generators as disposable, cost seems irrelevant.