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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by toast0 on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:33PM (#39598795)
> You'll develop an average just from traffic, and it'll be a lot higher then the bottom end - since otherwise why have the datacenter? Why not use spare capacity in your other datacenters?

Because when the sun is up over the Pacific ocean, everyone is asleep, and all of your datacenters are quiet.

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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by dangoldin on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:01PM (#39598986)
That's when your batch jobs are running. Partially kidding but companies will wait until there's lower demand to take advantage of spot pricing.
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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by Scoundreller on Monday March 04, 2024 @11:47PM (#39599555)
Or routing latency insensitive traffic there. Do I care where my backups are stored? No. (well, I kinda do for geological/weather reasons, but put it on Mars for all I care)
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