An analytics firm considers moving a nightly batch job from a cloud region in the eastern United States (420 gCO₂e/kWh) to Oregon (80 gCO₂e/kWh, hydroelectric). The job requires a 5-terabyte input dataset stored in the eastern region. Transferring 5 terabytes takes approximately 2.5 hours and consumes network energy. What is the primary constraint that may make this spatial shift impractical?

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The energy and time cost of transferring the large dataset across regions may offset the carbon benefit of running in a cleaner region

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Cloud providers do not allow workloads to be moved between regions

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Oregon does not have sufficient datacenter capacity to process the job

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Hydroelectric power is unreliable and may not be available when the job  runs

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