this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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If and only if someone is insane enough to develop off-planet manufacturing with the bulk of the raw materials originating from somewhere in deep space, e.g. asteroid mining, putting data centers in space might be useful for problems that demand intensive compute and can work with extreme latency.
Then again that's like saying inventing the airplane would have been a good strategy for Neanderthals to find better firewood.
Yeah. It would require such incredibly advanced autonomous automation that... well, it'd solve most contemporary manufacturing problems here on the ground, anyway.
IMO anyone pouring money in this stuff should read Project Rho, and maybe OA:
https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-timeline
It's fantastic speculative engineering. It's also a cold ass bucket of water.