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>>mindra+(OP)
To say the quiet part out loud, I don't think any serious companies have any intention to build a data center in space. There is no benefit in actually trying this. There is however, benefit in saying you'll do it to advance a narrative and distract from the problems terrestrial data centers are facing to an audience that mostly doesn't understand how heat transfer in a vacuum works.

>>collin+JH1
It makes the same amount of sense as a colony on Mars, largely for the same reasons.

Sure you can put people underground, but that’s probably not much fun. Why not just do that on earth?

>>mybest+PW2
They should be doing that somewhere inhospitable to prove out the technology and concept. Set up in the arctic and work only with loads of materials that correspond to a starship load.

But then again no one is really serious about Mars.