The more I read HN the more I realize that I am more of an empiricist than a rationalist.
So many people here are opining as if they are correct. I have a large amount of doubt and I like the fact that the world is structured so that people can try things out and see if it works.
If the world was run by the naysayers in this thread, almost nothing would ever get done.
Oh my god, it'd be way easier to, I don't know, build datacenters near Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where [0] is located. Here's your almost unlimited solar power, cheap land, and still better latency and easier cooling.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace_of_Uzbekistan