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Automaker Tesla is putting half a billion dollars into building a data center for its supercomputer Dojo. From that cloud, self-driving cars will be powered with data.

The supercomputer is being built in the northeastern US in the town of Buffalo, near the border with Canada. Some of the electricity will be generated by Niagara Falls.

Last Friday, the governor of New York State announced Tesla's investment during an update from Kathy Hochul on her work.

The announcement (from 34:10):

It is not clear exactly why Tesla chose that location. It cannot be ruled out that geographic location relative to Europe plays a role. There are many undersea data cables to Europe from the coast in that region. In addition, a large portion of American Tesla owners live in the Northeastern US.

Tech companies like to have their data centers close to their customers, so as not to make data transmission back and forth unnecessarily long. The faster a service is, the more pleasant the usage is perceived to be. On the other hand: a self-driving Tesla is driven autonomously, not from a Dojo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Dojo data center. Therefore, the carmaker's considerations remain guesswork.

The comments of the automaker's CEO:

Last summer, Tesla already bought a data center from Twitter. It already became clear then that the company wants to open this kind of location.

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