Malta makes money with igaming and money laundering. There's literally no other businesses there, other than basic necessities, and even these barely work. It's only focused on entertainment.
replyThey import food and water. Malta is very hot during the summer. There's AC unit everywhere and it's a default cooling unit as well, as there's no "European winter" there. Everyone collects rain water and stores it on the roof.
They are one tsunami away from being decimated.
There's one company renting servers and it's full of online casinos, just so the companies meet the regulatory requirement.
Malta is the worst place on earth to have a data center I can think of.
You forgot tourism which is their largest money maker.
replyUnlikely. Other than the telcos there's only one proper commercial datacentre here. Space is very constrained and the electricity supply stability + summer heat aren't a fun combination
replyAs a complete layman, I do wonder why you would bother building a datacenter at a place that everyone agrees is going to be basically underwater in the next 50-100 years.
replyWouldn’t 45 to 95 years of use be plenty of time for ROI?
replyYou're thinking of the maldives.
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replyWhat has this to do with AI literacy?
replyOpenAI is inherently incentivized to sell as much LLM compute as possible, that is not neutral "AI literacy". You don't let tobacco companies make anti smoking education either.
reply>You don't let tobacco companies make anti smoking education either.
replyMany jurisdictions literally force them to put education on the boxes.
Education written by the government about the risks, not the tobacco company about why cigarettes are great. Hence why the tobacco companies weren't keen on it.
replyData centers in a country that has barely enough water and electricity for its citizens? That is utterly ridiculous. This AI hype is going crazy, it's all an insane joke, right?
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