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ecommerceguytoday at 5:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is there really demand for 4000 plus data centers? I have a feeling that's shooting a bit above the mark (10x).


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AnthonyMousetoday at 7:40 PM

The whole thing is a motte and bailey game. The largest of cloud companies might build a data center which is 1GW. There won't be 4000 of those and it won't be next to your house. A huge number of commercial office buildings already have a 100kW data center in them, and have for decades, without anyone having any reason to know or care. For those 4000 is certainly an underestimate.

oceanplexiantoday at 7:30 PM

If all the talk is true that something approximating human intelligence can be scaled simply by building more datacenters, absolutely, it will be the most desired commodity in the world surpassing all others.

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