[XorNot]

See that detail of "near them"? Yeah it's a crucial one.

For some reason data center companies keep wanting to build data centers near existing utilities, near existing roads and transport infrastructure, and near existing electrical utilities.

Not in the middle of a desert. Or the antarctic. Or decommissioned oil fields.

[brianwawok]

Still cheaper to run power lines to a desert over run a data center in space

[ben_w]

I think it may be cheaper to use Starship as a point-to-point delivery system to put solar panels and compute modules in a desert, than to put the same compute performance into space.

Mainly depends on how much of a mess Starship makes taking off and landing.

[mensetmanusman]

-We should put data centers where no one is!

/s