Why jump to datacenters in space before trying unobtrusive neighbor datacenters?
dansitu · x · 2026-11-07
A contrarian take: the industry leaps straight to exotic solutions like "datacenters in space," yet nobody has seriously tried designing datacenters to be unobtrusive neighbors — a far cheaper path that could ease local opposition to expansion.
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