this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
961 points (99.3% liked)

Technology

74921 readers
2812 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In addition to the other answers;

America's deserts are tectonically stable and don't experience natural disasters. If you want your data and/or compute running in two regions for redundancy, somewhere in the desert is a good choice for one of your DCs.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe in AZ or other states but CA deserts are not tectonically stable.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know. Was looking for a term to separate the two areas. Not like the San Andreas fault is stable!

How could I have dialed that in better?

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Probably some ecological or geologic zone that would be precise but I don't know.