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What I don’t understand is that the vast majority of LLM workloads are pretty damn latency-insensitive. Why can’t they build these data centers where there’s li
by oefrha 1mo ago
What I don’t understand is that the vast majority of LLM workloads are pretty damn latency-insensitive. Why can’t they build these data centers where there’s little to no opposition? Sure someone will need to maintain the data centers, but with trillions in investment lined up, surely they can just pay people enough so they’re okay with living in the middle of nowhere.
Edit: When I say the middle of nowhere I mean say an hour’s drive from civilization, not the Arctic Circle.
- jhanschoo 1mo agoThey can, surely, but I presume that in some cases there's a lack of preexisting regulation on land use and on others politicians are not properly representing the interests of their constituency.
- uniq7 1mo agoDatacenters need a source of water, and human populations are usually concentrated in those places too for the same reason.
- trollbridge 1mo agoPlenty of ice cold water in northern Quebec.
- Phemist 1mo agoIt seems that e.g. OpenAI is mostly power constrained. To go to the middle of nowhere would mean also basically no power grid to speak off?
- armada651 1mo agoIt's difficult getting a grid connection and fiber optic uplinks in the middle of nowhere.
- trollbridge 1mo agoPlenty of power in northern Quebec.
- plasticchris 1mo agoBecause they need the local infrastructure to support them, which would be difficult and expensive to reproduce out in the middle of nowhere.
- expedition32 1mo agoAmericans believe in the free market but it was the feds who in the 1930s rolled out electricity to every little house on the prairie.
- fikama 1mo agoThere is a bunch of relativly big cities even in the arctic circle. Murmansk (population 295,374) Russia; Norilsk (178,018) in Russia; Tromsø (75,638) in Norway; Vorkuta (58,133) in Russia; Bodø (52,357) Norway; Harstad (24,703) in Norway; Kiruna, Sweden (22,841)