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by Delphiza 3 days ago
If the only benefit of space-based datacentres is a hedge against infrastructure attacks in a world war then we are in an awful place.

I'm not disagreeing with you but peace is far more prosperous for humanity than blowing the worlds' retirement funds on datacentres-in-space as a military endeavour.

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Also. I would not fully trust argument that all possible adversaries are incapable of attacking them. Possibly with cascading effects at least when you get size of satellites planned.