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A Boring Dystopia
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WTF don't they just use a closed geothermal loop?
Im actually curious on how much energy can be reused from heat alone.
Move the operation to someplace cold, start up a little town around it and provide heat as a utility.
don't give them ideas, or they'll thaw and colonize the antarctic
I'm not sure that's not already the plan.
Frost punk has entered the chat.
This is already happening in Iceland. Iceland is so cold, AI datacenters can just use the passive cooling from the environment. Iceland also has some of the cheapest electricity on the planet, thanks to public investment in energy infrastructure.
Hopefully we'll see more development in Greenland for similar reasons.
Start moving where it's cold, people. That's where the new 'coasts' will be.
I'm about 100 miles inland in a middle lat, I figure it'll come to me.