Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?

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      Solution: construct the buildings upside down, so the foundations are up in the air and the roofs are underground. That way, the electricity will flow down instead of up.

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        But then the roof has to support the entire weight of planet Earth on top of it, which is a much harder engineering challenge than pumping the electricity in the first place.