I've a #Question for the masses, and would appreciate if others would boost this.
Its about #Datacenters #Green #Agrotech and #rural #Fiber #Internet
We all know the story of hyperscalers. Slyly buy property, move in, destroy local area, increase electricity by a lot, drain aquifers, horrible noise and light pollution.
I'm instead looking at a triad of the following:
5000-6000 sqft data center in smaller communities. Find industrial or decrepit land and respectfully develop. Heavy acoustic paneling. Geothermal cooling loop to eliminate almost all water use. Power completely offset by local solar.
Virtual Power Plants. I pair with local (to the datacenter) farmers raising cows and/or sheep. I work WITH a few of them and install on their land raised solar panels and a battery room. They get 'discounted' (read: free) green power, and a seat at the table to the local operations. Will also work with local incumbent power companies to pay for grid upgrades, so the public doesn't have to.
With local data centers and rented dark fiber allows building out a fiber ISP. Its more a secondary, however building rural fiber can greatly improve and upgrade a community. This also can serve as a backbone for more #Agritech like drone coordination, farm #IoT integration with FLOSS technologies.
If I talked with local governing boards, and had multiple open sessions for the public, would you tentatively support this Green Distributed Edge Compute and Infrastructure ecosystem?
The final goal would be to replicate this model across the USA, strengthening the power grid, increasing fiber access for rural and semirural communities, and providing a distributed mesh of compute so that you are no further than 5-10 ms away from local powerful compute.
