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horsawlarway • yesterday at 9:52 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Yes, but that apparently proves the point of the poster above you.

The moderate improvements in cooling we're not worth the extra complexity.

So it just didn't make sense to do outside of a single media stunt project.

Data centers in space don't even get the cooling benefit.

The whole idea just doesn't survive modest consideration. Data centers aren't particularly dangerous. There's no forcing function to put them away from where people live. The best location for a data center is going to be a decent sized urban center with existing utilities (power and network) and acceptable land costs.

There are nearly forty of them in Atlanta, people walk by them every day with no idea what they are.