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Comment by joelhaasnoot | Hacker News Reader

I wonder if using the caves could be used to hold a small datacenter with minimal cooling costs. (Maybe a geothermal cooling loop?)

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Data centers have plenty of options for where they could be built without having to trash a unique natural space.

There's some precedent for this. Kansas City, MO has a large network of man-made caves[1]. I remember back in the '90s at least one ISP (Tyrell?) had a data center there. A quick search shows that some companies still host there[2].

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis
  [2] https://stckc.com/

Springfield, Missouri (in the Ozarks) has the Springfield Underground, an impressive and huge underground commercial space used for warehousing and data centers.

http://springfieldunderground.com/

https://caverntechnologies.com

It would cook whatever ecosystem is there. Better to just dig a man made cave somewhere else.

Doesn't look like there's any major fiber that goes through that area.

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