Oh no, definitely not... I imagine people would go there the same way people in mining work in the arctic, or people work out in oil-rigs. More about building server infrastructure there that is NOT IN ANY NATION STATE.

DeltaClimbs

And who actually wants to live there. 
You would be giving up a lot to live in a snowy wasteland. 

Satosora

tech

So hear me out: datacenters in Antarctica for cheap energy and 0 nation states?

Exactly, you have the best geothermal gradient on the planet!

Idk if we need all that many people since it's mostly about maintaining the machines, but anything that is not bandwidth intensive compute could be done there, so lots of bitcoin mining and AI.

I'm saying 1 million since some space CEO said something about 1 million humans in LEO, and I think we hit 1 million Antarctic service workers first... but you need absolutely massive infra to need that many people.