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Why not just build all the datacenters in the arctic? What am I missing?
Distance china-arctic (far) > distance china-ocean (0)
Also the arctic isn't that cold for most of the year anymore.
I mean, the arctic had summers even before the whole climate thing, now they're on track to being all summer all the time.
I meant generally. But they e got Mongolia don't they? Or Tibet?
Condensation
I mean.
Dehumidifiers? I'm not a scientist tho.
Honestly datacenters almost always benifit from being data sources, which mostly means population centers.
There is almost the cost of networking even if latency isnt a concern. There is just more line of sight with sats and fiber connection near existing places vs far off places.