Training AI models doesn’t need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found

Feature  Port Hedland is a town of just 16,000 people in a hot and dusty corner of northwestern Australia, 1,600 kilometers by road from the nearest substantial city. As such, it’s seemingly an odd place for a datacenter run by Australian operator NEXTDC. Yet such locations are increasingly in demand, thanks to their proximity to energy sources – given the voracious appetite for compute capacity to train artificial intelligence models.…