Advocating for no.
You’re frustrated by “people all over lemmy screaming that because there’s no air in space datacenters won’t work up there.”
Yep.
Consider this: Do all the reasons for not putting a datacenter in space also apply to not putting a big ass telescope in space?
If you can justify putting up an expensive telescope into space than you can also justify sending some high performance computing up there to process the sensor data on site. If you want to call your cluster of computers a datacenter go for it.
If you think datacenters in space are a bad idea for AI and other services here on Earth well then you'd obviously be right but if you think it is because of no air yea we are back to square one ima call you a fuckwit.
Now if you believe most space exploration is a waste of money and is just used for weapons development that would be noble, but still it's not a bad idea because there is no air in space. No one has used this argument just the air in space and expensive ones.
I am not advocating anything for I am just not letting your draconian tribalistic bullshit peer pressure into agreeing with dumbass shit spill over onto science without some pushback.