r/europe • u/GrumpyFinn 🇫🇮🇪🇪 Subreddit Aunt • 17h ago

News Russia and US May Announce Joint Data Center Projects, Kremlin Envoy Says

https://united24media.com/world/russia-and-us-may-announce-joint-data-center-projects-kremlin-envoy-says-23537
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u/ABoutDeSouffle 𝔊𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔗𝔞𝔤! 16h ago

The only explanation that makes sense to me is either the big US datacenter players and digital companies get to roll up the Russian market or they want to use it as a cheap country for mass compute - lots of fossil fuel sources, nuclear as well.

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u/KHRZ 14h ago

They are literally just doing it so Trump can rage at Ukraine when Ukraine blows up Russian data centers, just like Trump's imaginary refinery ceasefire was all about.

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u/filipinoboy11 16h ago

but... venezuela is right there....

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u/Alegre_Pontus 14h ago

How you expect to power these datacenters in Venezuela? Aside from datacenters proper, you'd need to build all the support infrastructure, like powerplants, powerlines and such, capable of supporting datacenters, such things which are already exist in Russia.

Anyway, I believe it just words and there'd no datacenters built.

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u/YoshiSan90 15h ago

I think he just wants his bots back, and Ukraine would be hesitant to bomb a US owned data center.

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u/Dismal_Consequence_4 16h ago

And a population that will not oppose it's construction

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u/Delamoor 15h ago

I mean, makes sense if you want to just have more built, and happen to have a little bitch in another country who is willing to build more of them in your country for you.