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Touchdown! Greaser!
Teach the uninformed (me) about this.
I read every day about the huge pushback on data centers in communities (electricity & water use, visual affront & noise, possible light pollution).
So I asked AI (irony, right?) why we don't build them in India etc. I wasn't ready to buy the answers (security & latency, foreign control) so I l want to hear from POA, who knows so much about how the world works.
Security? Seems like either that can be dealt with - or frankly, US-based data centers will likewise have as much as hacking risk as offshore ones. Having physical access to a computer server, does that vastly increase the security risk (only of accessing data, not vandalizing)? We can't hardly keep anything secure right here (name any government agency or large corporation which has not been hacked), so I can't see this being any riskier.
Latency? Seem like we can fly bits around the planet with fiber and sats in milliseconds already?
If we are worried about India going rogue, distribute the assets among 50 countries?
Just seemed silly that we can easily move a s-load of jobs that were needed here, to other countries - but when it comes to something that is looking to be pretty harmful to our environment we can't seem to move them to places with an abundance of water & electricity.
Probably build these structures a lot cheaper too.
I read every day about the huge pushback on data centers in communities (electricity & water use, visual affront & noise, possible light pollution).
So I asked AI (irony, right?) why we don't build them in India etc. I wasn't ready to buy the answers (security & latency, foreign control) so I l want to hear from POA, who knows so much about how the world works.
Security? Seems like either that can be dealt with - or frankly, US-based data centers will likewise have as much as hacking risk as offshore ones. Having physical access to a computer server, does that vastly increase the security risk (only of accessing data, not vandalizing)? We can't hardly keep anything secure right here (name any government agency or large corporation which has not been hacked), so I can't see this being any riskier.
Latency? Seem like we can fly bits around the planet with fiber and sats in milliseconds already?
If we are worried about India going rogue, distribute the assets among 50 countries?
Just seemed silly that we can easily move a s-load of jobs that were needed here, to other countries - but when it comes to something that is looking to be pretty harmful to our environment we can't seem to move them to places with an abundance of water & electricity.
Probably build these structures a lot cheaper too.
(or much reduce the time it takes to traverse all the switches and routers between here and there). All that adds up — a typical AI or big data transaction may go back and forth several times in that transaction (dozens of times, actually), and it all adds up. That LA data center will do the back and forth in maybe a tenth of a second; the Indian one? More than a second, which is easily noticeable to the end user. In real life it's worse than that…
