It would require all the nations of the world to be at peace to be fully functional. Il will never happen. Sadly.
yeahbitch_science_ on
The nazis and aliens wont allow peasants like human to increase their population at Antarctica 🤣 /s
joebojax on
Y do you think Trump wants Greenland full of ice cold clean melt water
MarionberryOpen7953 on
Construction costs, infrastructure, power transmission, data transmission. The internet is linked together by physical cables. If this was economical, they would be doing it. It might become economical in the future though and then it would make sense
Tiny_Dare_5300 on
My guess? Big oceans, legal access, environmental protection agencies, and polar bears. Mostly polar bears.
ritzrani on
Cuz they have to be reachable:p
hwm007 on
Lots of factors, one of them is data compliance, lots of countries require the cloud data center to be in the same country for data residency etc..
Character-Pickle-669 on
There is no profit in being logical.
Izlgd on
Wouldn’t that melt the ice & increase water level?
Embarrassed_Camp_291 on
A lot more goes into data centres than just „building it“.
Once you have built all your components, you have to then get them all to Antarctica. Theres no proper roads, so you might have to find a way of building them so transport can move properly.
There’s probably some labour laws that require your employees to have *some* protection from the cold (and likely some form of insurance) which would be a massive added cost.
Data centres are also typically built in places which are able to have easy connection to large power sources (the energy infrastructure). This doesn’t in Antarctica.
Cooling has to be targeted on components. Yes having a much cooler environment will help, but you might still get hot spots and will need a cooling system. These might be mass produced in a sense (See below) and so you end up paying for the cooling system anyway
Im not sure how similar this is to data centres, but with modern super computers, they tend to be made up of lots of shipping containers, each with lots of computers nodes in. You then just plug (there’s a little more too it) your shipping containers together. They do this so that, when a component fails, you can just disconnect that container and put in a new or temporary one.
You cant do that easily in Antarctica.
I believe Antarctica is some form of protected land where you are only allowed to do research there (e.g. neutrino detector, wildlife) but it has to be minimally invasive. All the logistics and infrastructure are not minimally invasive. You’ll also have to prove (and then conform to) to the rest of the world that your data centre is for international use research (and probably more than just „researching LLMs).
That’s a few reasons why.
linumax on
Cost (CAPEX) and OPEX
Pleasant-Drag-5039 on
Logistics costs
urkrafta on
Because other countries cheap power are not there.
pokemonpokemonmario on
Why not build them in deep space with this logic it is much colder there than even the coldest place on earth.
nacheteferrero on
Too much to pay in miles for maintenance
TmyBwy on
Have you seen what happens when you put something really hot in a bunch of ice?
Onomatapier on
That’s why the tech bros, have told him to take Greenland
Xx_Gojo_Satoru_xX on
obvi they dont wanna expose the great ice wall
thecamerachaos on
If we think like that, why don’t we build solar panels across the Sahara and connect it to grid?
SoTurnMeIntoATree on
Isn’t this what was behind the commotion of the US wanting to acquire Greenland?
MrBluewave on
Isnt thatwhy they wanted greenland?
koofdeath on
There are actually many project like that you can google it
OtherwiseMongoose296 on
How dumb do you have to be to think it’s a good idea to build anything at all in the arctic?
If anything we should get rid of those data centers. They are the future hubs of an economic and military system that will enslave us all.
HeathenAF on
Ssshhhh… I make a lot of money selling the HVAC pumps they use to keep everything cool.
PinkmanLogic on
The answer is probably a few scrolls under that post
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It would require all the nations of the world to be at peace to be fully functional. Il will never happen. Sadly.
The nazis and aliens wont allow peasants like human to increase their population at Antarctica 🤣 /s
Y do you think Trump wants Greenland full of ice cold clean melt water
Construction costs, infrastructure, power transmission, data transmission. The internet is linked together by physical cables. If this was economical, they would be doing it. It might become economical in the future though and then it would make sense
My guess? Big oceans, legal access, environmental protection agencies, and polar bears. Mostly polar bears.
Cuz they have to be reachable:p
Lots of factors, one of them is data compliance, lots of countries require the cloud data center to be in the same country for data residency etc..
There is no profit in being logical.
Wouldn’t that melt the ice & increase water level?
A lot more goes into data centres than just „building it“.
Once you have built all your components, you have to then get them all to Antarctica. Theres no proper roads, so you might have to find a way of building them so transport can move properly.
There’s probably some labour laws that require your employees to have *some* protection from the cold (and likely some form of insurance) which would be a massive added cost.
Data centres are also typically built in places which are able to have easy connection to large power sources (the energy infrastructure). This doesn’t in Antarctica.
Cooling has to be targeted on components. Yes having a much cooler environment will help, but you might still get hot spots and will need a cooling system. These might be mass produced in a sense (See below) and so you end up paying for the cooling system anyway
Im not sure how similar this is to data centres, but with modern super computers, they tend to be made up of lots of shipping containers, each with lots of computers nodes in. You then just plug (there’s a little more too it) your shipping containers together. They do this so that, when a component fails, you can just disconnect that container and put in a new or temporary one.
You cant do that easily in Antarctica.
I believe Antarctica is some form of protected land where you are only allowed to do research there (e.g. neutrino detector, wildlife) but it has to be minimally invasive. All the logistics and infrastructure are not minimally invasive. You’ll also have to prove (and then conform to) to the rest of the world that your data centre is for international use research (and probably more than just „researching LLMs).
That’s a few reasons why.
Cost (CAPEX) and OPEX
Logistics costs
Because other countries cheap power are not there.
Why not build them in deep space with this logic it is much colder there than even the coldest place on earth.
Too much to pay in miles for maintenance
Have you seen what happens when you put something really hot in a bunch of ice?
That’s why the tech bros, have told him to take Greenland
obvi they dont wanna expose the great ice wall
If we think like that, why don’t we build solar panels across the Sahara and connect it to grid?
Isn’t this what was behind the commotion of the US wanting to acquire Greenland?
Isnt thatwhy they wanted greenland?
There are actually many project like that you can google it
How dumb do you have to be to think it’s a good idea to build anything at all in the arctic?
If anything we should get rid of those data centers. They are the future hubs of an economic and military system that will enslave us all.
Ssshhhh… I make a lot of money selling the HVAC pumps they use to keep everything cool.
The answer is probably a few scrolls under that post