[CamperBob2]

And if they put them in the middle of nowhere, I don't see why there's a problem.

What I don't understand is putting these things in populated areas.

[lstodd]

Would you like to work in the middle of nowhere?

[SoftTalker]

After construction, not all that many people work at a data center. Some ops staff, maybe a small security team.

[lstodd]

So let's spit on those 'not so many people' from our ivory tower?

Besides, it's not about people, it's about power. Pulling a few MW into middle of nowhere is prohibitively expensive.

[loeg]

30 minutes outside of the suburbs doesn't sound like an awful commute.

[CamperBob2]

If they can be deployed in low-earth orbit with nobody working on them, they can be deployed 20 miles east of Bumfuck, Nebraska with nobody working on them.

[cameron_b]

The physical threat model of the Nebraska option does not rely on the tyranny of the rocket to keep intruders away.

[CamperBob2]

The point is that if you don't put them in the middle of somebody's neighborhood, nobody will care to attack them.

The idea of building robust, lightly-staffed technical facilities in obscure places all over the country is nothing even remotely new. It's how the long-distance telephone network was constructed and successfully operated in the decades before satellites took over: https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-...