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bigfishrunningyesterday at 12:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

Either the data center is in the wind belt and you run fiber to the people, or the data center is near the people and you run power to the source. Either way you have to do some kind of cable run, and that means land.


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thelastgallontoday at 11:49 AM

There was a massive dark fiber buildout in 2000. The hyperscalers already have long haul fiber optic infrastructure everywhere in US.

exe34yesterday at 12:46 PM

fiber is a lot easier to run under houses than hvdc.