A railroad has to track a lot of data; what's in each car (declared by customer), what train it's attached to, where is it on maintenance schedules; similar for the rail and signal infrastructure, etc; in today's modern environment, they need multiple datacenters for high availability.

Something something route planning to reduce the number of coupling changes, etc, etc.

Edit: also, a lot of long distance fiber runs on railroad right of way, so datacenters at rail yards may be well placed for connectivity.

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freehorse 2 days ago | parent [-]

A railroad is the infrastructure for transporting commodities. In the modern digital economy, datacenters along with the whole internet infrastructure are the modern railroads, which need protection and deregulation for the sakes of safety, national security, economy etc etc. Maybe this argument works better if the others don't?

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mcmcmc 2 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe instead of performing mental gymnastics to expand the executive’s power well beyond beyond what Congress has legislated, we should just pass new laws

	▲	freehorse 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I am not sure this is a good idea. Having congress legislate just adds friction, removes chances of personal gain for the the executive branch, and has the potential of actually changing parts of it based on democratic debate. A good middle position would be to have the executive power do its thing and have congress legislate/approve long after the fact has been established.