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by OutOfHere 13 hours ago
You are altogether externalizing the cost of carbon dioxide emissions that humanity has to pay for. The resulting global warming is not a joke. The heat problem cumulatively is bigger on Earth than it would be in space.
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Cost = emmissions
No, cost is not directly proportional to emissions.

Heat emission in space is not problematic for humans

Are you counting the emissions to get the datacenters into space?
That's an environmental and financial cost, but it's a one time cost. For datacenters on Earth, the emissions are continuous.
Are there going to be self sustaining server factories in space? The hw needs updating every few years.
How do we bootstrap to the point where we eventually have factories in space?

If it were up to me, I would be researching and optimizing non-chemical propulsion, also green synthetic fuels for launches. Unfortunately, we will have to leave that for some firm other than SpaceX to develop.