Can’t you place a space elevator below or above the equator? The tether would leave the ground at an angle but it would be parallel to the centrifugal force from the planet’s spin.
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Any orbit around the Earth will be in a full circle around the center of the Earth. The only full circle around the center of the Earth that matches the Earth’s rotation is the equator.
If you tried to do it somewhere else, the object in space holding the other end of the elevator would be moving in different directions in different speeds and it would rip itself apart.
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