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We can barely tolerate the latency and throughput limitations between Europe and the US for data center processing... and now we're okay with data being wirelessly transmitted (read: super slow) from Earth to the Moon?

Building something on the moon would be cool, but a data center? Unlikely.

>>softfa+(OP)
Until we make a really long USB-C cable.

...or, just, use the moon servers as an extreme form of backups only. Rarely used, used only for the essential data.

>>softfa+(OP)
> super slow

    $ units
    Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2022-12-14
    3753 units, 113 prefixes, 120 nonlinear units
    
    You have: (2 * 238854 mi) / c
    You want: ms
            * 2564.4291
            / 0.00038995034

Over 2.5 seconds round trip. And just imagine the on-call shifts. "Sorry honey, PDU failed. I'll be back four days after the next-next launch window opens."

>>debesy+V
we could encode it into true solid state form, maybe in the form of a giant rectangular monolith, and bury it...