alt Hacker NewsOh my god, it'd be way easier to, I don't know, build datacenters near Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where [0] is located. Here's your almost unlimited solar power, cheap land, and still better latency and easier cooling.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace_of_Uzbekistan
> it'd be way easier to, I don't know, build datacenters near Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where [0] is located.
To build? Yes, it would be easy. But to not get those datacenters annexed by Russia would be pretty hard. Russia experiences shortages of hardware right now, I'm sure Putin would be happy if we placed some ready-made datacenters nearby so he could grab them.