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LostInTheWoods • yesterday at 10:13 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Perhaps companies should consider putting their data centers underground (out of sight and out of mind). Space seems incredibly expensive and risky in comparison.


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thepryz • yesterday at 10:24 PM

I’m thinking semi-mobile datacenters near active volcanos powered by the heat of the lava/magna flows would be “cool”

wry_xy • yesterday at 10:34 PM

Or maybe we should just stop trying to centralize compute in the first place...

MisterMunchkin • yesterday at 10:17 PM

Oh I'm sorry, are you not even thinking of the lesser American ground worm? We're going to need a 15 year weevil analysis just to even think about digging a one metre borehole to test whether the worms will be affected.