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At Chile’s Vera Rubin Observatory, Earth’s Largest Camera Surveys the Sky

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47 points wglb | 1 comments | 22 Jun 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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mc32 ◴[26 Jun 25 04:39 UTC] No.44384233[source]▶
Why do they do this? One of the political divisions is not like the others (one of them is also a colloquial name):

"which will be transferred and processed at facilities in California, France and Britain."

Keep it consistent, else I don't know what else you're playing fast and loose with.

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aragilar ◴[26 Jun 25 11:41 UTC] No.44386415[source]▶
Possibly because of the way things are set up (and then the journalist didn't think to clean things up). SLAC (California) is where the US-hosted data will be, but for the UK and France there is more collaboration between HPC/compute centres and so it may end up in different locations (I know for SKA the "UK" "node" is spread across 5 different institutes, so "UK" is a better description than listing 5 different cities).
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1. mc32 ◴[26 Jun 25 12:29 UTC] No.44386760[source]▶
That sounds plausible. Still, "Britain" isn't the name of any sovereign nation I know of. It'd be like a datacenter in Eemshaven getting attributed to "Holland." It's a bit sloppy. Also California isn't a country.