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After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.” (arstechnica.com)

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 104 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Data center in space: untouchable

Strictly necessary ground radio station to get any usable amount of data to and from said data center: still flammable

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[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

You wouldn’t say untouchable if you’d seen me with a slingshot.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You could burn the ground stations down, but they're all around the world, and all it takes is 1 to route the data to via the inter satellite laser links. You'd definitely add latency though taking out ground stations near you.

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