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		whimsicalism 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' ... i have trouble understanding why the US is the best place for building these data centers, surely it is not the best place to do electricity arbitrage and LLM training and even inference doesn’t need fast networking

kelnos 6 months ago [–]

My guess would be because the US has weak privacy laws.

Building in the EU would mean a lot more compliance-y things. Building in developing countries means more stability risk, plus unreliable electricity.

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