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glitchctoday at 2:17 PM4 repliesview on HN

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.


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dopa42365today at 3:15 PM

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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haritha-jtoday at 4:51 PM

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

cududatoday at 2:34 PM

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

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