Iceland pitch to Musk: drill for free geothermal power, build datacenters outside EU reach
djcows · x · 2026-11-06
Developer djcows publicly pitched Elon Musk on building datacenters in Iceland: geothermal power is essentially free — "just drill a hole" — and Iceland sits outside the EU, giving full regulatory control. Half-joking, but it hits the real logic of compute siting: energy cost plus regulatory sovereignty.
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