If we don’t put data centers in the North Pole or in Antarctica, I really doubt that we put data centers in space.

In space solar energy is available all the time. That is not the case in those locations, and the storage needs to get around that are the worst on Earth.

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gf000 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Wind, waves, nuclear.

You don't have to pack your energy generator into the same package where your compute would go, for laughably little energy. You can have a single cable go between a huge power plant and the data center.

	▲	pfdietz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A huge cable to the North Pole or to Antarctica would be way too expensive. Also... nuclear? Please don't be silly.

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erulastiel 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bro the North Pole doesn’t have land FYI

	▲	Marsymars 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hey the geomagnetic pole is probably currently somewhere over Ellesmere Island, though has been drifting away.
	▲	JRandomHacker42 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		neither does space