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Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors (english.elpais.com)
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[โ€“] I_Has_A_Hat 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading a story about an email server that was limited to sending emails within 150 miles. Through a lot of digging, they found it was due to an auto-timeout timer getting reset to 0ms. Anything further than 150 miles would cause a 1ms delay and thus get rejected for taking too long.

[โ€“] baru 2 points 8 months ago

In case anyone wants to read that: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html