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To: elmatador who wrote (12860)8/4/2024 10:41:00 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 13783
 
"AI training" operations makes up a lot of the data center cloud workload currently, and there's a great deal of flexibility in what geography that's run in - primarily it's run where there is spare capacity.

But this is very unusual and short-lived situation for data center work.

Increasingly the AI workload will be inference, and again the primary consideration for where the work is run will be latency - which means the work will be performed where it is requested and needed.

Data centers in Kenya will be providing computer work for Kenyans and Kenyan companies and government organizations.

Power and data center costs might be less expensive in Colorado, USA but Kenyans will pay more to have their answers provided in real time from a center in Kenya. It's what the industry you worked in calls edge computing. A processing lag from using a cheaper data center elsewhere in the world isn't acceptable for most uses.
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