good points, all. the question is does the neighborhood taxpayer have to subsidize (in all the myriad ways, power, water, waste, pollution, parking, congestion, and gory financials) it’s construction and continued operations?
if it does, then it should at the very least be put to a general vote with informed consent (a true cost benefit analysis apart from jobs created or lost).
I don’t disagree with that at all.
I know quite about designing and building out these things.
The ones I have had some knowledge about do not use water except for emergency chillers that run maybe 1 week a year since it is cheaper not to. I personally did not think Data centers in Space was more than a pipe dream, but I was talking to a guy who worked for Musk and he said they were going ahead despite what I thought were large problems with heat dissipation. If you can put one in space, you can put one on earth with minimal disruptions.
yes power is needed, but mini safe reactors seem to be all the rage right now. I don’t want to be optimistic about fusion, but I have recently seen things I would not have believed only 10 years ago.
Forty people isn’t what anyone would congestion.