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.
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.
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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Yeah, what we really need is space data centres so we can beam off the data into space instead.
Ah yes but you can shunt the costs of that off into a public works/ taxpayer funded infrastructure project
The vast, vast majority of submarine cable projects are paid for with private money. I'm only aware of a few in the US that have received any public grants (all connecting relatively unprofitable areas like Hawaii, kind of analogous to the Essential Air Service program).