Designing compute for the edge: Out of the cloud and down on the ground,
Bare Knuckles and Brass TacksShow Notes
Cloud computing solved for scale by centralizing everything into a handful of massive buildings. Edge computing is the argument that scale was never the only thing worth optimizing for.
On this episode, Jeff MacMillan of Green Edge Computing Corp makes the case that sovereignty was never really about geography. It was about how many entities you'd have to strong-arm before someone gave in.
The conversation moves from mining sites with unreliable wireless to a Cloud Act clause most people have never read. It lands on an uncomfortable question: when decentralizing compute means decentralizing oversight too, who ends up accountable for what happens in the box nobody's watching.
The same hardware standard the U.S. military spent fifteen years refining now sits in clinics and 7-Elevens, and has implication and applications for bringing cutting edge software to the most remote areas. What does it mean when you can bring your own compute literally anywhere?
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* Jevon's paradox [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox]
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