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Irish Power Crunch Could Be Prompting AWS To Ration Compute Resources
Friday April 12, 2024. 07:40 PM , from Slashdot
'You cannot spin up GPU nodes in AWS Dublin as those locations are maxed out power-wise. There is reserved capacity for EC2 just in case,' one source told us. 'If you have a problem with that, AWS Europe will point you at spare capacity in Sweden and other parts of the EU.' We asked AWS about these issues, but when it finally responded the company was somewhat evasive. 'Ireland remains core to our global infrastructure strategy, and we will continue to work with customers to understand their needs, and help them to scale and grow their business,' a spokesperson told us. Ireland's power grid operator, EirGrid, was likewise less than direct when we asked if they were limiting the amount of power datacenters could consume. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/12/0942237/irish-power-crunch-could-be-prompting-aws-to-ration-comp...
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