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What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers

83 points · 74 comments · JumpCrisscross

  1. philipwhiuk · · focus · HN ↗
    It's bizarre that Digital Realty wants to put a DC in a town centre. Surely the latency disadvantage from being outside city limits is neligible.
    1. asdff · · focus · HN ↗
      It is crazy how you see so many datacenters getting built in places of high land value such as say northern virginia. Why not just build them in west virginia and build twice as many for the same spend? They'd probably even let you burn coal to power them.
      1. skrtskrt · · focus · HN ↗
        Low-latency fiber interconnects to other nearby data centers are a core feature of datacenters.
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