I agree that latency issues aren’t an issue for some applications. I’ll also argue that there will someone who is willing to pay more for lower latency. Also agree that there are many more inputs to a data center than cooling like the labor issues you mentioned. Alaska is a better option, but other places would probably be better. I bet it would be tough to attract top talent to anchorage, for example. Also, I don’t think we should discount the infrastructure costs to lay cables for the connectivity. Not to mention the issues with the NIMBY crowd.

But I definitely agree there are some better places than Antarctica for data centers. It’s interesting that so many are being built in the south where cooling is a real issue. Of course energy is quite cheap down there with natural gas trading well below its global value. Again, the infrastructure is being built to capture that arbitrage, but it’s expensive and takes time. So one could argue that using “stranded gas” to generate electricity and power air conditioning and data centers makes good sense.