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Has there ever even been a reason to have a space station of some sort on our moon? There's really not a lot there and its expensive as fuck to keep humans alive on it. Only real reason i can think of would be ease of cooling and power generation for computing without damaging our own environment, and that is a very recent "need".
Yep, there's a fuckload of minerals on the moon, and in our solar system. Enough metals to probably crash a handful of industries on Earth. The moon would be a useful gateway to many of the outer planets since it's gravity is weaker, and there's no atmosphere, in addition to the raw materials.
For mining, refueling* and power generation*, the moon makes a ton of sense.
*Some of these require technologies we don't yet have, but may soon.
Not even remotely economical, if we account for the transport costs.
And what do we want to do there? It has the same problem as the moon.