I really don’t know why you’d build a space elevator in Honolulu of all places. Is the volcano no longer active at this point? Is the space elevator lava-resistant? And why would the headquarters be here and not in, you know, Washington, D.C., where all the rest of the headquarters are in the real world? That’s the seat of government, not Hawai’i. Do you know why? Because of how expensive it is to live in Hawai’i. Nearly everything has to be imported there, which will cause costs to be extremely expensive. No one who didn’t make at least seven figures a year would be able to afford anything in Honolulu. Also, did you kick out all the tourists? Did you destroy all the vacation spots? Or all those still there, just under heavy watch because the freaking government is based there? This is why you need to take time to put some thought into where you put things and why, because it’s going to have consequences.

In a better author's hands, would be interesting to tackle the idea of a place's economic status evolving. Could be interesting for Hawaii to have lost it's tourist flare over time, losing that "exotic paradise" view to pollution or something, thus lost a lot of the income that keeps it afloat and become sort of a desolate place because the lack of tourism no longer allows for high costs of living. When they started to scout for locations to build the space elevator, Honolulu was the lowest bidder because of their current situation.