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It's so stupid. Wouldn't doing the same thing but on the bottom of the sea be less expensive, more realistic and with less of an environmental impact? You could cool the machines easier, get power from the water movement and there is plenty of space on the bottom.
even then the sea is somewhat unrealistic, because you would still be replacing the parts, you have to deal with corrosion, and other things like water pressure. and sea life likes to encrust on manmade objects too.
Sure. Everything needs maintenance. Still much much cheaper this way then the orbit.
Microsoft successfully did that somewhere near Scotland iirc.
I read somewhere that china was also doing some experiments. Oh here it is: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/09/worlds-first-wind-powered-underwater-datacentre-starts-operating-in-china
Though I swear I saw another experiment with the entire thing submerged all the way to the bottom in a marina or something, but cannot find it.