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nostromoyesterday at 9:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

The company with the access to cheap and plentiful energy and the real estate to build data centers will be Saudi Arabia in your analogy.

This is why SpaceX could be a dark horse in this race. Putting compute in space is expensive but so is building a data center in the US.


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bpyeyesterday at 9:53 PM

> Putting compute in space is expensive but so is building a data center in the US.

You know what's also really hard in a vacuum? Dissipating heat.

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redanddeadyesterday at 10:42 PM

Putting it centrally globally makes a lot of sense, just like connecting airports

Saudi will host the biggest data centers in the world