Too late, it is already a trash dump up there. There is no real alternative, the DC's will be built somewhere. They either pollute the earth or space. Neither option is a good one.
There is a European group that is building them on "boats", powered and cooled by the waves. As water transfers between chambers it spins a turbine generating on site power. The same water flow is refreshed after each wave cycle, allowing for a cool down.
This is modern environmentally conscious engineering at its finest. I live in the monkeys gone to heaven part of America where toxic sludge seeps in and exposes the body causing a slow painful decline to death. I'm hoping it's not space junk or lack of ground water that kills me faster because of a data center. What were we doing B4 the data center? Why can people save personal data on drivers, or external hard drives .. why do we need all these data centers out of nowhere... Makes no sense...
I agree with you, we are all going to pay a high price just to make silly videos, memes and fake pictures of ourselves standing next to a big foot. I am not proDC, I am just smart enough to make some money off the people trying to kill me.
I have seen different designs that may cut down on the pollution and demand for water, but we are a huge country and will need to use several methods to protect the environment and the workers. No one knows yet what working inside of one of those things for years will do to a human.
Both of our parties have supporters and haters of Data Centers, we need them and should work together to build them; I know your party hates all things Elon Musk, but he supports building orbital data centers. This idea solves heat buildup, cooling servers and ends the demand for massive amounts of water.
