[glitchc]

All the money they save on water cooling will be spent on massive undersea fiber lines to move the data to and from the island.

[dopa42365]

Those are fairly cheap, hyperscalers have been building more or less their own cables for many years, they cost practically nothing compared to the data centers themselves.

https://resources.telegeography.com/telegeography-content-pr...

[haritha-j]

Yeah, what we really need is space data centres so we can beam off the data into space instead.

[cududa]

Ah yes but you can shunt the costs of that off into a public works/ taxpayer funded infrastructure project

[rafram]

The vast, vast majority of submarine cable projects are paid for with private money. I'm only aware of a few in the US that have received any public grants (all connecting relatively unprofitable areas like Hawaii, kind of analogous to the Essential Air Service program).