alt Hacker NewsFinding land/power/space to do a _single_ rack is not hard as ~every office building in America has 200kW of extra power and HVAC water at ~25C. Plus it only costs $4-5k to stick that $5M rack in the back of a truck to drive it there. No permits, easy maintenance, stable network connectivity.
Why use a satellite to do what your IT closet can already do?
People are fudging orders of magnitude because it sounds cool and they are stupid.