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The UK is begging for people to build datacenters: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-...

National governments maybe. Local ones aren’t, and it’s those that fill with nimbys and maintain the majority of control over planning

Everyone wants the datacenter somewhere in their country for sovereignty... just not next to them. Quelle surprise. At this point you may as well build supermarkets on top of them just to sell 'em to people.

They're so absurdly capital intensive at this point that they probably ought to be buried at least 50 meters down. If any reasonably capable countries ever face off directly they'll probably be one of the first things to go.

US suburban development followed nuclear war threats. Will history repeat itself by unconcentrating servers?

Given the rapidly increasing power densities I expect it would be far more straightforward to bury them. I believe a single 42u rack of last gen nvidia hardware is already more energy intensive than the HVAC for a mcmansion.

However it occurs to me that the electrical grid becomes a high priority military target in this scenario. Maybe datacenters should go all in on building their own power plants.

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