I appreciate the time you took to consider and answer, I'd put it to you that there's more to it than geographic isolation.

There's nothing preventing Wongi folk from buying a pair of DGX Sparks and having them shipped out to Kalgoolie and they're literally on the same ground as the Australian component of the SKA - some of the more advanced signal processing instrumentation and racked supercomputers on the planet.

I hear talk of making AI centres isolated in space, etc.