Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

Re:Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale by joelhaasnoot on Sunday November 26, 2017 @11:43AM (#15781654)

I wonder if using the caves could be used to hold a small datacenter with minimal cooling costs. (Maybe a geothermal cooling loop?)

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Re:Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale by codingdave on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:30PM (#15781939)

Data centers have plenty of options for where they could be built without having to trash a unique natural space.

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Re:Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale by geraldcombs on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:47PM (#15782035)

There's some precedent for this. Kansas City, MO has a large network of man-made caves[1]. I remember back in the '90s at least one ISP (Tyrell?) had a data center there. A quick search shows that some companies still host there[2].

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis
  [2] https://stckc.com/

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Re:Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale by baddox on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:30PM (#15783948)

Springfield, Missouri (in the Ozarks) has the Springfield Underground, an impressive and huge underground commercial space used for warehousing and data centers.

http://springfieldunderground.com/

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Re:Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale by SQL2219 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @11:47AM (#15781675)

https://caverntechnologies.com

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Re:Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale by read_only on Sunday November 26, 2017 @06:47PM (#15783765)

It would cook whatever ecosystem is there. Better to just dig a man made cave somewhere else.

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Re:Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale by bradleyjg on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:39PM (#15783154)

Doesn't look like there's any major fiber that goes through that area.

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