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minus-squaredregan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down5·2 days agoWhat kind of dumbass builds a data center in the middle east?
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 days agoA company that has operations in the Middle East. Proximity matters quite a bit when networking at scale. Networking across Tier 1/2 carriers gets expensive quickly, and is hard to justify when you can put the datacenter closer to the customers.
minus-squarePyro@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 days agoLiterally every cloud company
minus-squaremrdown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoWell the gulf countries was stable until the idiot and war criminal trump started this illegal war
What kind of dumbass builds a data center in the middle east?
A company that has operations in the Middle East. Proximity matters quite a bit when networking at scale. Networking across Tier 1/2 carriers gets expensive quickly, and is hard to justify when you can put the datacenter closer to the customers.
Literally every cloud company
Well the gulf countries was stable until the idiot and war criminal trump started this illegal war