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ancianita

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38. Considering that the U.S. is 29 times the size of Finland, I'm pretty sure this is a problem of scale, and not

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 07:43 PM

Dec 2025

just profit and/or ideology.

When countries that are the size of our states do great things for their people, that doesn't make us look bad, but just makes the point of how small countries can innovate as well as afford nationwide change faster.

One thing that does make us look bad is that we have 90+ percent of the nation's wealth concentrated at the top, and the highest poverty level out of 38 OECD countries. Another thing that makes us look bad, when you look behind the drama curtains -- it's the tech and Koch oligarch networks that are privatizing the country into a plantation.

Their corporate messaging says, "nothing personal, just business" as the collateral damage turns into national human wreckage.

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Bet ya Trump will make this illegal: it makes too much sense [View all] applegrove Dec 2025 OP

Interesting but I doubt it will happen here only because it sounds expensive newdeal2 Dec 2025 #1

If it adds a nickel of cost to the opium dreams of AI developers, it will never happen. hatrack Dec 2025 #2

Excellent true words! chouchou Dec 2025 #19

And if it additionally drmeow Dec 2025 #40

NIMBY modrepub Dec 2025 #8

Unless they charge users for the heat and/or energy Auggie Dec 2025 #13

Here in the AZ borderlands, where people face drilling deeper well to reach lowering, disappearing water table Attilatheblond Dec 2025 #22

Finland has a centralized network of underground pipes to distribute steam (geothermal).... pat_k Dec 2025 #41

Finland's underlying granite is home to lots of infrastructure. thought crime Dec 2025 #46

Yeah, it makes way too much sense. sop Dec 2025 #3

Never work in the USA - it it's not making a profit it is dead on arrival. walkingman Dec 2025 #4

Yeah. This would save on heating costs. Trump only applegrove Dec 2025 #6

BINGO! OldBaldy1701E Dec 2025 #9

What about all the data centers in the South? Ursus Rex Dec 2025 #5

An argument for moving data centers to Alaska or more densely populated cold places in the "snowbelt." pat_k Dec 2025 #42

This is a nice thing OnionPatch Dec 2025 #7

Please explain how that helps the fossil fuel industry. JohnnyRingo Dec 2025 #10

Are you talking to me? It doesn't help the fossil fuel industry. applegrove Dec 2025 #11

I was being sarcastic. JohnnyRingo Dec 2025 #12

Sorry. I get it now. I didn't think you were a troll applegrove Dec 2025 #14

I was being sarcastic again. JohnnyRingo Dec 2025 #17

LOL! applegrove Dec 2025 #18

Well, I for one knew where you were coming from in the first few words. Cheers! erronis Dec 2025 #16

It takes huge amounts of Electricity popsdenver Dec 2025 #37

Of course it helps the fossil fuel industry... NewLarry Dec 2025 #26

Rec jfz9580m Dec 2025 #45

And when they finally figure out the data centers are worthless and shut them down? erronis Dec 2025 #15

Putting them underground also helps with noise and space constraints IronLionZion Dec 2025 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author Rendville Dec 2025 #21

Trump would have his peons bomb the place. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #23

Finland and Iceland are already positioned to take advantage of this kind of technology... Ol Janx Spirit Dec 2025 #24

Yeah, he'll call them underground wind mills or some such shit. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Dec 2025 #25

I don't know. Sounds kind of "woke" to me. If it's not coal, Trump isn't interested. Vinca Dec 2025 #27

Acushnet Process Company, which started making Titleist golf balls, used to heat the building in the winter from...... usaf-vet Dec 2025 #28

Yes computers were huge back in the day. applegrove Dec 2025 #29

WWBOD? - What Would Big Oil Do? JoseBalow Dec 2025 #30

Good one! calimary Dec 5 #47

Inefficient use of a wasteful process's leftovers. marble falls Dec 2025 #31

Inefficient use is better than no use at all. Shipwack Dec 2025 #34

Trump doesn't have to make this illegal. In most of the country we can't do this at all. jmowreader Dec 2025 #32

Reminds me of the Minnesota Supercomputer Center GopherGal Dec 2025 #33

Fa geta bout it! This is only possible when you have government oversight and an educated populace. flashman13 Dec 2025 #35

Silly me popsdenver Dec 2025 #36

Considering that the U.S. is 29 times the size of Finland, I'm pretty sure this is a problem of scale, and not ancianita Dec 2025 #38

If would probably. work in large cities if there were still large tenements. LiberalArkie Dec 2025 #39

District heat networks? In America you pay to have your data-center heat delivered in a truck. paulkienitz Dec 2025 #43

Given the places it would make sense, seems to me it's a great "blue state" (subset: snowbelt) initiative. pat_k Dec 2025 #44