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minus-squareSuperIce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·2 months agoBecause you want data centers to be closer to the users for speed.
minus-squareleftytighty@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoTransit latency is a tiny tiny fraction of the round trip time for AI processing tasks. Until AI tasks are in the order of milliseconds instead of seconds it’s a rounding error.
minus-squareHowManyNimons@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoDoesn’t that depend on the application?
Because you want data centers to be closer to the users for speed.
Transit latency is a tiny tiny fraction of the round trip time for AI processing tasks. Until AI tasks are in the order of milliseconds instead of seconds it’s a rounding error.
Doesn’t that depend on the application?