▲ 619 ▼ IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 11 months ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 47 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] MangoCats@feddit.it 9 points 11 months ago [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (-1 children) The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of “dark fiber” ready to carry data… someday. Counterintuitively, I'm seeing "fiber to the home" deployed more in rural an exurb areas. My guess this is because its lower density meaning installing and maintaining copper repeaters becomes more expensive than laying long distance, low maintenance, fiber. Additionally its easier to obtain permits because there is far less existing infrastructure to interfere with right of way and critical services. We got fiber to the home in our exurb about 4 years ago here in the USA. Its really cheap too. 500Mb/s is $75, 1Gb/s $100, and 5Gb/s I think is $200 per month. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies) [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 11 months ago (-1 children) The promise of "fiber to the home" is still mostly unrealized Really? The US is really unsophisticated in certain key areas that you wouldn't expect. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (-1 children) The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of “dark fiber” ready to carry data… someday. Counterintuitively, I'm seeing "fiber to the home" deployed more in rural an exurb areas. My guess this is because its lower density meaning installing and maintaining copper repeaters becomes more expensive than laying long distance, low maintenance, fiber. Additionally its easier to obtain permits because there is far less existing infrastructure to interfere with right of way and critical services. We got fiber to the home in our exurb about 4 years ago here in the USA. Its really cheap too. 500Mb/s is $75, 1Gb/s $100, and 5Gb/s I think is $200 per month. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 11 months ago (-1 children) The promise of "fiber to the home" is still mostly unrealized Really? The US is really unsophisticated in certain key areas that you wouldn't expect. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow -1 child comments load more comments (-1 replies)