lowkey insane that it will end up cheaper to shoot your datacenter into space than get it past the county board permitting process.

Earth will get bulldozed soon anyway to make room for that hyperspace bypass. The plans have been available in the local planning office for a while, but nobody knows about it because they're hidden in the basement and you have to go down there with a torch.

I think if those building the datacenters were more upfront about what they were building and didn't hide behind NDAs the permitting process wouldn't be so fraught.

Narrator: It wasn't.

This is probably one of the main drivers