[mrkgnao]

> like a thunderstorm formed from two opposing weather fronts, the physicality of outside Prineville air met the everywhere-ness of inside space in an impossible, non-Euclidean intersection

Not every word is a pretty one you can throw around, you know: what exactly about this metaphorical meeting was "non-Euclidean"?

[ibotty]

The metric that connects data centers is not Euclidean. There are some names of that metric but for that story the name "railroad metric" might fit best.