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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 21d 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.
- plasticchris 21d agoBecause they need the local infrastructure to support them, which would be difficult and expensive to reproduce out in the middle of nowhere.
- expedition32 21d 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.
- armada651 21d agoIt's difficult getting a grid connection and fiber optic uplinks in the middle of nowhere.
- trollbridge 21d agoPlenty of power in northern Quebec.
- jhanschoo 21d 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 21d agoDatacenters need a source of water, and human populations are usually concentrated in those places too for the same reason.
- trollbridge 21d agoPlenty of ice cold water in northern Quebec.
- Phemist 21d 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?
- fikama 21d 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)