... against fierce local opposition - and in the teeth of, yes, housing as potentially being an alternative use for the site. It's the controversial Brick Lane Data Centre which, in a delightfully pointed insult, offers 4 (four) units of social housing.
What makes it exquisitely amusing is that none other than Housing Secretary Angela 'Stamp-Duty' Rayner has been the one to put her name to the government order overriding lower-tier authorities that would have withheld approval. One can just imagine the agonies she will have gone through; but, hey, that's the price you pay for the privilege of slipping back into the Cabinet room, eh? Them's your orders, girl, and leave your scruples at the door. Still, at least she was able to push a junior minister out in front to make the actual announcement (in her name). Happily, Parliament is not sitting.
What I find doubly amusing is the way puzzled progressives can't understand how a data centre can be needed simply to speed up City financial transactions by milliseconds (which is one of the justifications for a DC in the East End). Surely, they, cry, this is some kind of capitalist joke? - nobody needs to make even quicker financial transactions ... do they ..? Well, I have a first-hand story about this for another occasion: bottom line, it's all a lot more real than the ignorant could ever imagine.
On the subject of Them's your orders, girl ... with the fatuous 'consultations' on the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields being about to close, we are all greatly looking forward to Miatta Fahnbulleh being forced to walk the same plank and approve one or perhaps both of them in the next few weeks (doubtless on one quiet Friday evening during the Recess, with another junior minister out in front). It'll be fun to watch her squirm.
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nobody needs to make even quicker financial transactions ... do they ..?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
"Many practical algorithms are in fact quite simple arbitrages which could previously have been performed at lower frequency—competition tends to occur through who can execute them the fastest rather than who can create new breakthrough algorithms."
Absolutely not an irrelevance. Trading desks often bypass the public internet entirely for their connectivity to exchanges.
While latency is a trivial concern for most internet users, apart from a few hardcore gamers (who have the same needs as those wanting a data centre in extremely close proximity to their physical location or adjacent to their connectivity destination) it is a real factor.
I pinged this very website by way of example:
Resolved to: ghs.google.com (Google Hosted Services) → IP 172.253.62.121
• Packet loss: 0%
• Latency (RTT):
• Min: 0.80 ms
• Average: 0.93 ms
• Max: 1.17 ms
Getting on for one millisecond is an eternity when you’re executing possibly hundreds of trades a minute or want to get ahead of market moving information.
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