[michaelt]

You're right - perishable goods have to be shipped fast. Your bananas, berries, fresh fish, and not-fron-concentrate juice can't be on some slow-steaming container ship with the furniture, clothes, building materials and vehicles.

The GPUs can though.

[kube-system]

Rice is a nonperishable grain. Grain ships in neither of those. Grain is shipped in bulk carriers

[selectodude]

And the GPUs are such high margin that they all take an airplane anyway.

[kube-system]

That is other “different mode entirely” that exists to go across an ocean :)