they are talking about covering the desert with solar panels. why would you not put the data center in the middle of it?

Simply because latency is a competitive advantage, one worth paying for. At the speed of light, making a trip out to the desert and back is too slow.

20 ms extra, for models which respond in 5 minutes

	▲	stogot an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Right It is a use case where humans are not latency sensitive