[rswail]

Space based data centers make no economic sense compared to land based.

The only reason is to remove them from local/regional, and potentially national/international jurisdictions.

Oh, and of course, the other reason is to give SpaceX to have a reason for xAI to be part of its structure.

Starlink makes sense, LEO comms using a mesh makes sense.

LEO/geosync satellite data processing doesn't.