boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoWhy data centers want to have their own nuclear reactorsenglish.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1179
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minus-squareXtalllllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoThe earth has a circumference of 25,000 miles, and the speed of light in a fiber cable is 124,000 miles per second, so going the whole way around the earth would take .2 seconds(assuming you could send a signal that far).
minus-squareJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoSure, but infrastructure is not just fiber, and there is a lot of stuff in between your long stretches of fiber. I’m not a sys ops guy, but I can pull from different data centers and see measurable differences This is a pretty well known phenomenon. That’s why we have cloud data centers located close to major metro areas.
The earth has a circumference of 25,000 miles, and the speed of light in a fiber cable is 124,000 miles per second, so going the whole way around the earth would take .2 seconds(assuming you could send a signal that far).
Sure, but infrastructure is not just fiber, and there is a lot of stuff in between your long stretches of fiber.
I’m not a sys ops guy, but I can pull from different data centers and see measurable differences
This is a pretty well known phenomenon. That’s why we have cloud data centers located close to major metro areas.