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Comment by frollogaston

19 days ago

You can add floors though. Some datacenters are 8 stories with cross-floor network fabrics.

When you get to, say, 100000 stories, you can't build more stories. At this point your computer costs more than the Earth's GDP for a century, so talking about theoretical scaling laws is irrelevant. Eventually you run out of the sun's power output so you build a Dyson sphere and eventually use all of that power, anyway.