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3eb7988a1663today at 4:44 AM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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kube-systemtoday at 6:58 AM

But if it’s a colo it’s unlikely to have many LLMs running there. The big AI datacenters are mostly purpose built.

bryan_wtoday at 6:56 AM

Is this DC even for LLMs? I've not seen any sign of that.

Considering that the initial build out was only 10MW, it seems unlikely that was the primary usecase.