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  • Most services today have user accounts so they can store your information, that way if you get a new phone for example, you can just sign into a new device and your content is there. So the maps, your configurations etc, are all sent to a remote server so it just works.

    Having to manually connect to the robot each time, when you might not even be in the same country when you want to connect, doesn’t work if it’s all done locally.

    Companies that want to offer connected services like this but are privacy centric could let you encrypt it before sending it so they can’t see what the contents are, but then you need to manage the idiot populace and their inability to properly secure this kind of information. Then, you start getting all sorts of support calls like I lost the encryption key and now I can’t access my map! What kind of stupid service makes me remap things when I change phones and forget something!? 1 STAR!

    So there’s no really getting around sending some data back to the server, but even IF they have it unencrypted, there’s no reason other than corporate profit taking to also be using that data. They don’t have to, but they will and do.






  • Australia isn’t the greatest spot to run a data centre in general in terms of heat, but I do understand the need for sovereign data centres, so this obviously can’t work everywhere.

    What makes you think $3.5 million can’t be profitable? A mid sized hospitals heating bill can get into the many hundreds of thousands or into the millions even. Especially if it’s in a colder environment. A 5-6 year payback on that wouldn’t be terrible and would be worth an upfront investment. Even a 10 year payback isn’t terrible.

    These colder locations are the ideal locations for the data centres in the first place because they generally want a cooler climate to begin with, so they will gravitate to them when possible.

    Edit: And if you build a data centre with this ability to recoup heat, you could start building further commercial things in the area and keep the heat redistribution very close. You don’t need to travel very long distances. You do need to put some thought into where they go through and whats around or will be built around.