Latency.
Whats the relevance of fibre optic latency to electric lines?
Not all loads require low latency to end users.
Doesn’t matter for training or most AI use cases. We are talking tens of ms latency here.
I’m gonna guess availability of employees may matter more.
Latency for interaction with AI? For something the user use browsers and electron apps. A ping goes around the whole world before your pressed key is visible on the screen.