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Maybe, that's why they want Greenland so bad. Low temperature, many free spaces, no significant nature and if there is one, not enough citizen who can complain. And if they still need water for cooling, there is probably enough from the melting ice they can use.

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1. Who is "they"?

2. Alaska has all of those things. (Though there's plenty of "significant nature" in both Greenland and Alaska.)

All the money they save on water cooling will be spent on massive undersea fiber lines to move the data to and from the island.

Those are fairly cheap, hyperscalers have been building more or less their own cables for many years, they cost practically nothing compared to the data centers themselves.

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Yeah, what we really need is space data centres so we can beam off the data into space instead.

Ah yes but you can shunt the costs of that off into a public works/ taxpayer funded infrastructure project

The vast, vast majority of submarine cable projects are paid for with private money. I'm only aware of a few in the US that have received any public grants (all connecting relatively unprofitable areas like Hawaii, kind of analogous to the Essential Air Service program).

No, datacenters are placed near cities because the biggest concern is workforce.

How much workforce do you think it takes to run a data center?

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