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Would you like to work in the middle of nowhere?
by lstodd 4mo ago
Would you like to work in the middle of nowhere?
- SoftTalker 4mo agoAfter construction, not all that many people work at a data center. Some ops staff, maybe a small security team.
- lstodd 4mo agoSo let's spit on those 'not so many people' from our ivory tower? Besides, it's not about people, it's about power. Pulling a few MW into middle of nowhere is prohibitively expensive.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoIf they can be deployed in low-earth orbit with nobody working on them, they can be deployed 20 miles east of Bumfuck, Nebraska with nobody working on them.
- cameron_b 4mo agoThe physical threat model of the Nebraska option does not rely on the tyranny of the rocket to keep intruders away.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoThe point is that if you don't put them in the middle of somebody's neighborhood, nobody will care to attack them. The idea of building robust, lightly-staffed technical facilities in obscure places all over the country is nothing even remotely new. It's how the long-distance telephone network was constructed and successfully operated in the decades before satellites took over: https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-distance-network/history-of-att-long-lines/ https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-...
- loeg 4mo ago30 minutes outside of the suburbs doesn't sound like an awful commute.