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The company plans on offering the service to a small group of customers in select areas as part of an early access program.

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[–] NightAuthor 2 points 1 year ago

I mean… I’m thinking…

Would that be useful for hosting a variety of distributed services? Nah, bc the whole point is horizontal scaling. And 20gig is definitely vertical scaling, but then again, por qué no los dos?

The metaverse (lowercase m) is expected to have lots of need for extremely fast and low latency networking. Even if it’s just short bursts here or there, in a live interactive situation, you definitely want geometries and textures downloading and rendering as fast as you can possibly get them.

So maybe they’re just prepping for that, and trying to get whales to subsidize it all.