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Originally Posted by Alan A

We moved a data center 3000 miles across an ocean. With judicious caching and decent telco links it was possible to make it decently usable - but we had to rewrite a couple of the more chatty apps. Speed of light can’t be mitigated.

I’ll bet he can do it. I’ll go out on a limb and guess he’ll mesh the satellites for distributed processing to scale it.

Many years ago, we got a ticket about some app experiencing "extra latency". I suspect it was for the folks that I work for now, but before I knew who they were and what they were about. Someone had previously had servers in Delaware and some location in New Jersey very near NY. One of their servers was moved to a server near Chicago. They called to complain because their latency had increased by, IIRC, 8ms or maybe 12ms. Once we ferreted out that the server had moved we had a pretty good chuckle. The servers had initially been <150miles apart, and were now >500 miles apart. The guy asked "how do I get the latency down?" We had to tell him "move the server back to where it was". He did NOT like that answer, but sheiße happens.