There are still hundreds of miles of dark fiber in city centers. Server racks in cities are not full, and are instead being emptied despite the fact that it costs more to host data in places like rural Michigan. Servers hosted in urban settings have lower latency due to their proximity to primary network nodes, and have higher performance and uptime due to the concentration of talent and experience in urban settings.
Giant data centers planned in smaller communities are motivated by one thing - a swapped power relationship between the community and the corporation. The ability to ‘externalize’ many of the higher costs of hosting data remotely to the people living in these smaller communities is the profit motive behind their construction.
There are still hundreds of miles of dark fiber in city centers. Server racks in cities are not full, and are instead being emptied despite the fact that it costs more to host data in places like rural Michigan. Servers hosted in urban settings have lower latency due to their proximity to primary network nodes, and have higher performance and uptime due to the concentration of talent and experience in urban settings.
Giant data centers planned in smaller communities are motivated by one thing - a swapped power relationship between the community and the corporation. The ability to ‘externalize’ many of the higher costs of hosting data remotely to the people living in these smaller communities is the profit motive behind their construction.