alt Hacker NewsRight? How do people not understand this? Have fun with your super-high latency when the DCs leave your city.
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kube-system • today at 4:12 AM
It’s not necessarily “super high” latency to connect to data centers at a distance. Whether or not it matters depends on the application, and for most consumer applications it isn’t a huge issue. For AI data centers it doesn’t really matter.
The signal speed in fiber is some 200k km/s. If you go 10 miles outside of a city, you are adding 0.1ms ping, and you will have dramatically fewer pitch forks.
The ping between New York and LA is ~70msec. Chatting with a LLM is not latency sensitive.