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An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What is up with this obsession with data centres in space?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't know where it started. Maybe someone rich watched Altered Carbon or played CP2077. But now that the fantasy's circling among billionaires, others want to cash in.

...From the firm's perspective, if it's hilariously impractical, so what? It's Bezos's money, and they'll take it.

And they must know funding for space-based science (the actual practical application) is drying up.