SpaceX's plan: Put all the data centers in space, then profit

[AZJonnie]

5. At their heart, one major benefit of data centers lies in their proximity to the end users

Primarily connected to said consumers via massive hard-wired, physical connections for the majority of the route. More importantly, the power to run them also comes from massive, hard-wired physical connections that "data centers" in low earth orbit would not and could not have.

Thus, putting "data centers in space" is beyond stupid, at least if they're going to be operated for the same purposes as the ones currently being forced into terrestrial communities. IOW, if their WERE such things, they'd have very different purposes than the ones conjured by the term "data center" in the minds of regular people.

They might be used to RELAY data, but that's nothing new, it's pretty much what satellites do.

And creating a Mars colony housing 1M human beings is somehow, amazingly, even more fucking stupid.