Rural America voted against policy that was building out infra for them. Perhaps they will change their mind eventually. This is a people and policy problem, not a technology problem.
Rural America's internet problem is not edge compute. It's the FCC constantly redefining "broadband" to include barely-connected households.
This solves nothing, even if you bridge the digital divide. It's also subject to local regulation, likely unprofitable and requires extraordinary headcount-to-compute ratios that will never displace Oracle or AWS. Their "pre-built logistics and power grid" would get saturated by 2 colo machines.
As someone living in rural Nevada and served by Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, I agree. I don't see what problems out here would be solved by local cloud computing resources. The snippet provided doesn't go into detail.
> Visual: U.S. map overlaying DG store density and proposed Gold Site distribution.
Nothing says LLM “generate me a white paper” more than text description of visuals that do not exist.
https://broadbandusa.ntia.gov/funding-programs/broadband-equ...
https://www.ntia.gov/funding-programs/internet-all/broadband...
Rural America voted against policy that was building out infra for them. Perhaps they will change their mind eventually. This is a people and policy problem, not a technology problem.
(less AI slop please)
Will "Rural America" do anything with a faster internet connection, other than stream Fox News in HD, and subscribe to more Facebook hate groups?
It's a good idea. Many DG stores are within line of sight with one another, just need to add a short tower with some microwave dishes.
Rural America's internet problem is not edge compute. It's the FCC constantly redefining "broadband" to include barely-connected households.
This solves nothing, even if you bridge the digital divide. It's also subject to local regulation, likely unprofitable and requires extraordinary headcount-to-compute ratios that will never displace Oracle or AWS. Their "pre-built logistics and power grid" would get saturated by 2 colo machines.
As someone living in rural Nevada and served by Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, I agree. I don't see what problems out here would be solved by local cloud computing resources. The snippet provided doesn't go into detail.