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Boosters say a data center proposed for Alaska's North Slope could take advantage of abundant land, low temperatures and a huge natural gas supply. The $500M project could consume twice as much natural gas as urban Alaska’s grid. (via Northern Journal) www.adn.com/business-eco...

adn.comA huge data center could rise on Alaska’s North SlopeThe $500 million project could consume twice as much natural gas as urban Alaska’s grid.

18/5/26, 4:28 pm1 repost8 likes

flippytheclown

@flippytheclown.bsky.social

18 May

IT person here. Assuming you could power such a data center how are you connecting it to rest of the world? No customer of this is going to want the physics of unavoidable additional network latency of being thousands of extra miles away.

flippytheclown

@flippytheclown.bsky.social

18 May

Not to mention the enormous cost of running adequate fiber overland or subsea.

blue-in-ak.bsky.social

@blue-in-ak.bsky.social

18 May

This is a very bad idea.