Both would be better choices than Virginia.
But yes, this is a major concern. A few modern nuclear plants would solve the problem, but you'd have to build them. It wouldn't be cheap.
Probably not at a large scale, although similar situations have led to odd headlines like 'Florida's manatees are addicted to power plants'.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240328-floridas-manatee...
But I like where your head is at. Maybe an offshore platform? Alternatively, there are lots of places that aren't permafrost-cold which are nonetheless quite cool underground year round. I wonder how big a geothermal system would have to be to be an effective heat sink for a data center.
Ah. 500 feet of pipe per 3.5 kW. That might be why they don't do it that way. XD
https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/showcase-pr...
I doubt it, the bigger issue would be Global Warming, but
What you said makes sense on paper, but the center will sink into the ice quickly. I remember reading that a base down there had to be moved due to it sinking.
I assume some sort of geothermal(including water based) could be used in many regions already.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr...
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centres-underwater-climate-...
https://news.ufl.edu/2024/05/underwater-data-center-security...
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/china-has-star...
Just need a big enough and deep enough lake in a temperate climate.
Not sure when all that added heat becomes a problem, but it’s gotta get dumped somewhere.
The only question would be, would it create so much heat in one spot that it would actually warm up the environment too much?
The main thing stopping this now is lack of high throughput low latency data to the continent.