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DATACENTERS IN SPACE ARE A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD IDEA

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Putting data centers into space is a terrible idea and makes no sense. The components needed to make a data center work don't work in space. The reality of making space hardware actually function in space is not necessarily intuitively obvious. It is possible, but it would be disproportionately costly compared to Earth-based data centers and would offer mediocre performance at best.