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In space solar energy is available all the time. That is not the case in those locations, and the storage needs to get around that are the worst on Earth.
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Wind, waves, nuclear.

You don't have to pack your energy generator into the same package where your compute would go, for laughably little energy. You can have a single cable go between a huge power plant and the data center.

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A huge cable to the North Pole or to Antarctica would be way too expensive.

Also... nuclear? Please don't be silly.

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Bro the North Pole doesn’t have land FYI
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Hey the geomagnetic pole is probably currently somewhere over Ellesmere Island, though has been drifting away.
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neither does space
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