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Queueing is not a virtue when it comes to building data centres
在建设数据中心这件事上,排队并非美德

Builders of facilities that power AI are stuck in a snaking queue to connect to the UK grid but stamping out gaming of the system could help
为AI提供动力的设施建设者在接入英国电网时被困在盘旋延宕的排队中,但遏制系统投机行为或可缓解这一难题。

As a nation, the UK holds queues in high regard. To those watching from abroad, the 10-mile line to view Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state seemed almost as quintessentially British as the sovereign herself. Yet it doesn’t always make sense to allocate scarce resources on a first-come-first-served basis. The rush to build data centres is an example.

作为一个国家,英国对排队推崇备至。在海外观察者看来,那条为瞻仰伊丽莎白二世(Queen Elizabeth II)灵柩而排出的10英里长队,几乎和这位君主本人一样具有典型的英国气质。然而,用“先来先服务”来分配稀缺资源并不总是合理。当前对数据中心的抢建就是一例。

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