Israeli research suggests telomeres lengthen in high-pressure oxygen. For those who can afford it. And may I suggest not lighting a cigar to celebrate...
On the face of it, the costs for the main ingredients are trivial where oxygen-content is a matter of adjusting a dial, and where the air pressure is arbitrarily dense. The sticking point on Venus is Boyle's Law: where the pressure rises, so does the heat. I had to shift my farms to the 50°s and work them with barrel-chested high-Amazonians. And they're maximising carbon dioxide.
Air-conditioning, therefore, is that necessity for the hyperoxic/-baric spa.
We float one spa down in the industrial altitude. Since oxygen gas is reactive indeed flammable, hyperoxia is not for the shop floor. Supplying that separate floating spa-bubble with energy costs money, so is pay-for-use. Maybe the rich in their own bubbles can afford personal hyperoxia in lower altitude.
Up with the farms, air-conditioning is cheaper, tho' still a thing at least for visitors. Here the spa's problem is keeping its hyperoxic air pressurised whilst floating that high. Again: separate bubble, pay-for-use. Above the clouds, the energy is near-free; but they'll soak you on the shuttle fee.
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