Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters Datacenter operators in Northern Europe say US tariffs and growing global geopolitical instability are inflating costs and causing delays to construction projects. Demand for rackspace has shot up in the past year or two, driven by AI infrastructure for training ever larger models. A survey by datacenter specialist Onnec …
According to the 'Dear Leader' who can never be wrong about anything...
The USA is winning everything everywhere all the time and it is all thanks to him (according to him)
All that winning is turning almost every nation earth against him and the USA. No wonder it is pushing up costs elsewhere. That's what winning does.
Never mind that no one can buy Gas for $1.98 a gallon....
Next, he'll say that because of all that winning, the USA does not need elections and that any that take place and go against him... will be overturned because of all that winning,
Icon 'Think of the children' is because wants to deport babies who are US born.
Never before has so much damage been done to the world's economy by so few in such a short time.
We'd all better get used to saluting El Trumpo, the new dictator.
I can understand on/off tariffs are making a monkey of any US based bit barn development business plan.
But would that not benefit european bit barns who can get their gear tariff free from China? Indeed maybe benefitting from stuff diverted from the US?
Of course the US benefits from low energy costs provided Canada doesn't turn the lights out. Maybe Canada is the place to build your north american operations where the government is a little more sane and predictable.
Datacentres are delayed. AI workloads might experience mild discomfort. The UK government is alarmed.
Tariffs, copper shortages, not enough cabling contractors - we must act. £2 billion for AI, fast-track planning, red carpets for hyperscalers.
Meanwhile? Disabled people were nearly stripped of life-saving benefits. Starmer’s government quietly floated the idea of cutting PIP and health-related Universal Credit, threatening to plunge the most vulnerable into destitution - until rebellion forced them to backpedal.
So let’s be clear: a hallucinating chatbot needs more GPU farms? Emergency.
Millions of struggling humans need food, shelter, care? Tough choices. Tight budget. We need to balance the books.
The rich say “we need more compute,” and Starmer asks how high the racks should be stacked.
But when the poor say “we need help,” he checks if it polls well.
This isn't pragmatism. It's class loyalty.
And you’re not in the class that gets loyalty back.
That's right out of the GQP's 'Big Beautiful Bill' in the USA.
Starmer is right when he says that he understands Trump. That includes kissing Trump's ass almost as much as Farage.
MAGA should become MALA, Male America Lose Again.
Especially when you have right wingers pushing to make the USA a place where only Whites have the vote and everyone else is kicked out, 'A Handmaids Tale' is not that far fetched.
The churn rate and flawed nature of AI means these projects are money pits for mugs to chuck their cash into. Those building datacentres need to get the small print right to bank cash, and make sure they get it up front, because when their clients go TU, they won't be paying any bills. Do not spend a single dollar that is not already securely in your clammy grasp.
Wiser bitbarners can offer classic datacentres, banning AI-centric projects and choosing their customers wisely, so they will still be up and running and paying their bills when the bubble bursts. They will also have a slower churn rate for tech and can offer much lower prices at a time when that matters.
Sensible companies should buy in dirt cheap high capacity drives and run Linux or Windows LTSC on their own servers, prioritise their security, block AI and its risks, and avoid the Cloud, SaaS and overly complex reliance on tech.
Starmer might want to switch his energy priorities away from datacentres to residential aircon. The UK does not have this and will need it, or the mini heatwaves it now gets will lead to deaths rather than sleepless nights. Labour were so insular in their view that they assumed, with the Tories well beaten, they could just roll out standard policies, ignoring the damage Brexit had done and the threat of Reform. Long Brexit means that governments will be firefighting in the UK for the next generation, not operating business as usual policies. They believed their own propagnda, that Brexit was a mini policy bump and a dead issue. But the damage has taken the UK down several leagues, cut Sterling to bits, hammered access to (migrant) labour and savaged multiple sectors, including finance and the universities. Energy prices are insane and the retail food supply is getting sketchy (outside the hame counties). Plus climate change is starting to hurt people. In short, Labour were naive and incompetent. They have flushed every ounce of goodwill that they had, and opened the door to Reform when they should have prioritised closing it. Mostly due to a lack of talent and complete disconnect from what people are suffering.
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