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looorg [soylentnews.org] writes:

New data center location -- Space. In about a decade or two they want to have data centers in space. Not quite sure why, "infinite solar power?" or is earth running out of earth to build on? It's somewhat unclear what the competitive edge would be to launch your data center into space. Wouldn't it make more sense to submerge them into the ocean? Which they have already tried and done to (2).

New work title -- space janitor.

(1) https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/europe-wants-to-deploy-data-centers-into-space-study-says.html [cnbc.com]
(2) https://natick.research.microsoft.com/ [microsoft.com]

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