If the battery cooks off inside the data center, it will do some damage. The amount of water that will be required to put it out will do even more damage.
cmnybo
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The main reason for wanting a physical copy is so you can sell it when you are done with it. If the data degrades after a couple of years, it doesn't do much good. A pressed disc will last for decades when taken care of.
Flash has a limited data retention time. With high capacity QLC flash, that time can be very short.
The radiators dissipate the heat as infrared radiation. They work as long as they are pointed away from the sun or earth.
If they couldn't get rid of the heat, there would be no satellites or space stations.
The radiators would be about the same size as the solar panels. Both would have to be huge to run a rack full of GPUs.
DDR5 will probably stick around for a long time if DDR6 is not affordable.
The Chinese fabs should be producing lots of RAM by 2030.
They wouldn't release it on floppy disks. It shouldn't need more than a few blurays.
A bluray can hold 100 GB. They could fit it on one if they only put low resolution textures on the disk and made the high res textures a download.
If they are going to put in tunnels, they may as well just put in a pneumatic tube system so the robots wouldn't be needed.
Finding a decent game on the play store is nearly impossible. They will be buried under a mountain of ad and microtransaction infested crap.
You can even buy a USB adapter to connect an 8 inch floppy drive to a modern PC and read 50 year old disks if you want to.