re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

One consideration about your proposal of “just put your servers in the sun” is latency. The reason why there are data centers in multiple cities worldwide is to give global clients a way to serve their stuff and not have it take half a second for every request. Could they do better than they are doing, absolutely. But locations for data centers are pretty constrained by transport infrastructure (see previous discussion on moving hard drives or SD cards full of data around with planes and trucks), and proximity to people.