UK news
fromTheregister
1 week agoDatacenters planned for Scotland could drain a loch of power
Planned hyperscale datacenters in Scotland could add roughly 2–3 GW of demand, about 75% of the country's current peak electricity consumption.
Hyperscale operators would like high bandwidth routes, with low latency (accomplished with the most direct routes possible between locations with limited switching) and very high uptime (accomplished with good physical and cyber security and route redundancy). With the birth of AI, the need for continued improvement in all these categories has accelerated.